Agenda, and @chirp state of the nation / twitter developer manifesto slides from Devnest 8, London, April 20 2010

1. follow: @devnest hashtag: #devnest
sponsors:
organisers:@nuxnix @markabaker

2. Twitter Developer Nest 7 - 10 March 2010
6:00pm Pizza, networking, beer
6:45pm @nuxnix - WarbleCamp Update
@aral, Feathers the story of a twitter app that is #1 in What’s Hot &
New and Noteworthy (March 2010, US App Store) http://
feathersapp.com/
@edent a talk about @Dabr development – A mobile web interface to
Twitter’s API - http://dabr.co.uk/
@georgioskap – Favorious http://favorious.com, a new website that
aims to become the most comprehensive service based on Twitter
favorites.
@nuxnix @chirp - State of the nation
Panel discussion - What now for developers and startups now that
Twitter is growing up and acquiring competitors
7:50pm Break, networking time
8:00pm – 140 second show and tweet demo/pres
9:00pm WarbleCamp.

3. WarbleCamp
War•ble n. a sound made by
European Twitter developers
when they work out the total
cost of going to Chirp
Un•con•fer•ence n. a
conference without all the things
you hate about conferences - a
bit like what Twitter is to other
social networks
War•ble Camp n. a FREE two
day unconference for European
Twitter developers - coming to
London 8th and 9th May 2010
Brought to you by the makers of
The Twitter Developer Nest,
TweetCamp, BarCampLondon
This picture by Alan Stanton is licensed under
and BarCampBrighton.
the Creative Commons
Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic

4. WarbleCamp, Rough Agenda
9am Coffee
Barcamp style sessions
24 hour hackathon in self organised
groups
Hack Demos and Beer
Sponsors
Micro Sponsors
@rem

5. WarbleCamp, how to attend
Follow @warblecamp
Visit http://warblecamp.org/
Free Tickets now
Sponsors
Micro Sponsors

6. @chirp, state of the nation

7. What was announced
• Proprietary
BlackBerry app
from Research In
Motion
• Acquisution of
Tweetie
manufacturer
Atebits,
• Tech, Streams, etc

8. What did they say?
“Careful analysis of the Twitter
user experience in the iTunes App
Store revealed massive room for
improvement. People are looking
for an app from Twitter, and they're
not finding one. So, they get
confused and give up. It's
important that we optimize for user
benefit and create an awesome
experience. - @ev

9. What does this mean?
• Assertion
• Donʼt bother to develop client apps for
RIM or for iPhone because twitter
compete
• Discuss
• Devnest audience response was
mixed.
• Lots of Pros and Cons

10. Takeaways
• "It would be very
dangerous for anyone to
be relying 100 percent on
Twitter (for a business
model),"
• - Loic Le Meur - Seesmic

11. My twitter developer manifesto 0.1
• Provide an open development partner program
• with published requirements to progress its levels from ʻregistered through to
ʻtrustedʼ or whatever
• Access to a Published platform and API roadmap, references, test suites
• Publish the monetization business strategy for twitter corp
• Providing direction for where partners should ʻgoʼ and where to ʻstay awayʼ
• Commit openly that twitter is benevolent, wont adopt an embrace, extend and
extinguish strategy towards third parties
• Publish a service level agreement for uptime, feeds
• by level of partner or paid for example
• Publish a community code of conduct
• Apply a community governance process to twitter API, hold meetings openly and
publish final decision-making
• Apply a community process to innovations in twitter technologies
• Appoint independent adjudication for twitter id disputes

12. Thank you for the pizza and beer!