Twitter is canceling its Chirp convention for builders amid administration transition, the corporate stated late Thursday. 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’s not shocking that 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 stated that the corporate is “arduous at work to make Twitter higher for everybody, together with builders” and it’d quickly share some information in regards to the matter.
The corporate’s head of developer merchandise, Amir Shevat, didn’t present any particulars in regards to the motive behind canceling the convention and simply tweeted “Winds of change” as a response to it.
In June, Parag Agarwal-led Twitter introduced that it’s bringing again the Chirp convention in November. The corporate additionally opened up 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 yr.
Twitter first held Chirp in 2010 however deserted the occasion the following yr. Whereas the platform has had a strenuous relationship with builders within the final decade, it was attempting to win the group again with new packages and a refreshed API. What’s extra, the corporate opened up API entry to educational researchers final yr.
Earlier this yr, it debuted a program known as Twitter Toolbox, which highlighted some third-party apps. At the moment, Shevat additionally stated that the corporate was open to exploring fashions like Twitter’s personal app retailer.
Final week, Twitter opened up new endpoints to direct messages through the v2 API that allows third-party apps to supply a greater DM expertise to customers.
It’s unclear what Twitter for builders will appear to be within the Musk period. The Tesla CEO has given indications of engineering-led Twitter a number of occasions, so builders will hope that they’ll get higher entry to the corporate’s instruments.
There will probably be questions on what occurs to merchandise like Tweetdeck. The corporate began testing a brand new model final yr with the hope to make it a paid product. Earlier this yr, findings by app researcher Jane Manchun Wong instructed that Twitter may give entry to Tweetdeck via its Twitter Blue program. However since Musk is overhauling the subscription program in an enormous method, there isn’t a method to make certain Tweetdeck may have a spot there.
