Look back at the Twitter Developer Nest
May 3rd, 2009. Published under Talks. 1 Comment.
I am now back home on my birthday. Haven’t been here since Wednesday 29th April. Feels like weeks since I slept in my own bed!
But I did have an awesome time at the Twitter Developer Nest. I am briefly going to summarise the parts of the day that really got me thinking.
Zolty
The first presentation was by @zolty where he showed us BakerTweet and how he used an Arduino unit to create a tool that was installed at the Bakery over the road from his office. The unit sends out a tweet when a baker takes something out the overn, chooses the item on the unit and presses the send button.
It was a really great presentation and really opens up the number of opportunities for this unit. Zolty did mention that there is a unit being tested at London Zoo where a tweet will be sent out when an animal is being fed.
ME!
I spoke second and talked about my various Twitter apps but went on to talk in-depth about the FootyTweets Cease and Desist issues. I have included the presentation below.
Doug Williams
@dougw is part of the Twitter API team and focuses on support. He breifly went into some of the technical details into why there have been problems since Aston Kutcher and Oprah (with a lot of other factors) increased Twitters traffic exponentially.
He also answered a number of questions from the audience. There were a few issues that were raised including Twitter Avatars and syncing.
Paul Johnston
Paul (@PaulDJohnston) did a really interesting talk about Transient and Persinstant data on Twitter. It was quote in-depth and he went into how to best make use of Twitter avatars. I have embedded his presentation below.
Show & Tweet
After the main talks it was time for show and tweet, you have 140 seconds to talk about your app. I can only remember a couple of the demos so please accept my appologies if your app isn’t listed. Please tell me in the comments!
- TweetMeme API
- Peepwl
- TweetRaffle (in development)
- TwitApps
Then it was off to the pub! I did get to talk to a number of people and would really like to thank everyone there who talked to me but in particular @stut. We discussed Twitter apps and scaling for almost 2 hours and barely stopped for air!
Paul Randall on May 3rd, 2009
It sounded like a good event. I am sure that Twitter will evolve from what it is today. I know I use it differently now than I did 2 years ago when I joined.
I am going to predict more and more ‘crowdsourcing’ applications being produced in 2009. I certainly think including your followers in a discussion would be very useful.