Twitter is canceling its developer-focused Chirp convention amid administration transition, the corporate said late Thursday. The convention was scheduled to happen in San Francisco on November 16.
After Elon Musk took over the corporate final month, there have been a number of government exits and directional adjustments within the firm’s product technique. So it isn’t shocking the social community is abandoning its plan for the convention’s return after greater than a decade of hiatus.
In a tweet, Twitter’s official account for developer-related bulletins mentioned that the corporate is “onerous at work to make Twitter higher for everybody, together with builders” and it would quickly share some information in regards to the matter.
The corporate’s head of developer merchandise, Amir Shevat, reacted to the information with a cryptic message, stating: “Winds of change.”
In June, Parag Agrawal-led Twitter introduced that it’s bringing back the Chirp conference in November. The corporate additionally kickstarted a contest for developers to point out inventive use circumstances of its new v2 API with costs like $10,000 for winners of various classes and free entry to the enterprise tier of the API for a 12 months. It mentioned whereas the convention will now not happen, the social community will nonetheless announce the winners of the contest.
Twitter first held Chirp in 2010 however deserted the occasion the subsequent 12 months. Whereas the platform has had a tenuous relationship with builders within the final decade, it has been attempting to win the neighborhood again with new programs and a refreshed API in recent times. What’s extra, the corporate opened up API access to academic researchers last year.
Earlier this 12 months, it debuted a program called Twitter Toolbox, which highlighted some third-party apps. At the moment, Shevat mentioned the corporate was open to exploring fashions like Twitter’s own app store.
Final week, Twitter opened up new endpoints to direct messages through the v2 API that allows third-party apps to offer a greater DM expertise to customers.
It’s unclear what Twitter for builders will appear like within the Musk period. The Tesla CEO has given indications that the agency will prioritize engineering, so builders can hope that they are going to get higher entry to the corporate’s instruments.
However till then, there might be questions surrounding the long run outlook of some merchandise resembling TweetDeck, which is fashionable amongst energy customers of the social community. The corporate started testing a new version of TweetDeck last year with the hope to make it a paid product. Earlier this 12 months, findings by app researcher Jane Manchun Wong prompt that Twitter might bring TweetDeck to its subscription umbrella Twitter Blue. However since Musk is overhauling the subscription program in an enormous manner, there isn’t a manner to make sure whether or not TweetDeck nonetheless has a spot in it.
