Inaugural London Twitter Developer meetup at Twitter in London

1. #TapIntoTwitter - London
September 6th 2016

2. 1. Networking Time
2. Introduction
3. State of the Nation
4. Open Source at Twitter
5. Open mike
6. Open discussion - community notes and queries
7. Wrap up & networking
Agenda

3. Introduction

4. Angus Fox Gen Ashley
Community Lead
@coderinheels
Community Lead
@nuxnix
Independent from
Twitter, and
passionate about
London developer
communities, we
might best be
described as
critical friends

5. #TapIntoTwitter
Make Twitter work
for developers.
–
Make developers using Twitter technologies more successful

6. Goals
Understand the
breadth and benefits
of available
technologies
Share our success
stories, and learning
points in an open
community
1 3
Gain Increased
awareness of best
practise, recent
changes & ratholes
2

7. State of the nation
Angus
@nuxnix
Gen
@coderinheels
#TapIntoTwitter

8. A Timeline Of Twitter
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Twitter
https://github.com/kristw/d3kit-timeline
In labella.js - a Twitter Open Source project - we are today an Internet lifetime from where it started

9. 2016, Here, Now, Twitter
Fabric is a modular mobile platform that helps you build the best apps.
Bring Twitter content into your website or app with buttons, Twitter Cards,
Twitter Analytics, Embedded Tweets, Embedded Timelines, Follow Button
Gnip helps organizations leverage Twitter data to make better decisions and gain
unique insight into customer and market behavior.
@twitterOSS - Twitter uses, contributes to and releases a lot of open source
software and supports open source communities via contributions or membership.

10. 1. Changing population = opportunity
• millennials drivers of change,
• images are the preferred medium for
Generation Z
2. Simple Social morphing into expressive
communication,
3. Mobile advertising can work if
authentic, innovative
4. Proven increases in brand satisfaction
through social interaction
5. Voice in cars, devices
6. IoT, light bulbs have firmware now
7. Data as a platform for services/apps -
interpretation
8. Cybercrime, privacy, data security
2016, Here,
Now, Industry
Source: @KPCB

11. 1.Understanding what twitter technology benefits
their project or strategy
2.Provide additional ingredients that can make us all
more successful
What Can A Developer
Community Focused On
Twitter Achieve?

12. 1. Cross platform. No OS agenda
2. Open Source - fork, contribute, as you wish
3. Social tools for your projects, just add water
4. Build tools for mobile apps and their CI/CD
5. OSS tools
6. Big Data tools
7. Fun tools
The Benefits Of Using
Technology From Twitter

13. 1. Not by having the great idea - that’s up to you
2. By focusing on technologies from Twitter and examples of best practice
3. By understanding the universe Twitter provides, what they are good for
4. By understanding Twitter’s latest updates
5. By understanding where are the sweet spots for developers
6. By swimming downstream with Twitter not fighting the current.
7. By embracing open source
8. By embracing the innovators patent agreement
9. By avoiding ratholes
10. By being informed enough to make better decisions earlier in our project timetables
How To Make Developers
Using These Technologies
From Twitter More Successful

14. In the form of:
I hope ______ but fear _____.
The idea is to identify the things you want
to get from this community and openly
hear about barriers you may have.
Putting your fears out there gives us input
so we can plan to avoid your fears from
being realised.
Exercise: Hopes
And Fears
@leslieobeslie

15. 1.Give an open mike presentation later
(4 minutes, max 3 Slides and a Demo.)
2.Offer to give a longer presentation at a
future meetup.
3.Open discussion and Q & A
4.Tell us what you want to see/hear
5.Tweet with #TapIntoTwitter
How To Get More Involved

16. Open Source
@TwitterOSS

17. @TwitterOSS
Quick review of major projects
for prioritisation
for a deeper dive in the future
Takeaway: Lots of projects
Open Source
At Twitter
https://twitter.github.io/

18. Present for 4 minutes on your project or app, demo for one minute. Maximum 3 slides.
Stick to a Twitter related topic.
Timing Strictly enforced
Open Mike

19. Open discussion, questions you need answers to,
information you are looking for.
Community notes

20. 1. Networking Time
2. Introduction
3. State of the Nation
4. Break and Networking Time
5. Open Source at Twitter
6. Open mike
7. Open discussion - community notes and queries
8. Wrap up & networking
Wrap Up, And Networking