Twitter is looking to enhance its bonds with the developer community by relaunching its ‘Chirp’ conference, which brings together developers and members of Twitter’s team to discuss the latest initiatives and provide answers to technical queries.

As Twitter explains:

“The Chirp Developer Conference is a celebration of the innovation developers have brought to Twitter, the opportunities that await, plus a few surprises.”

Small Bird 

Twitter’s Chirp will be held on November 16th, which is still kind of a long way out, but will include keynote sessions, reveals, and community engagement initiatives with both IRL (San Francisco) and online components throughout the day.

The relaunch will see to it that Twitter holds its part of the Chirp Developer Challenge, where developers are invited to submit their most interesting, innovative, and creative use of Twitter’s API. Over $520k worth of prizes will be awarded in three categories:

  • Content Discovery apps

  • Conversation Safety tools

  • Public Good apps

This might just help Twitter find new use cases and developmental opportunities, beyond the capacity of its own team. Though whether Twitter will be able to develop them or not largely boils down to whoever is in charge, with Elon Musk still in the process of completing his takeover.

With Musk as chief, that could bring huge changes to Twitter and its roadmap, which will see various elements re-prioritized according to Musk’s plan. That would mean that development initiatives like these either gain more traction or are sidelined completely. Regardless, it makes sense for Twitter to continue building relationships with developers and dev communities while trying to find new angles to forward the app.

The Wrap

Though this might not seem much to general users right now, it could end up providing new inspiration for Twitter’s next big updates and additions. Twitter remains the leader in real-time engagement and interaction, which provides a huge capacity for insight, provided it can be harnessed. Maybe, the Chirp conference will be the origin of a totally new way of looking at Tweets.

Learn more about the Chirp conference here and also register for updates.

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