Twitter developers, come together: Twitter announced the launch of Twitter Developer Communities Wednesday.
Senior advocacy marketing manager Kelly McMichael said in a blog post that the program is aimed at enabling developers to form their own communities worldwide and connect with each other locally, or with the @TwitterDev team.
McMichael said Twitter Developer Communities can range from small workshops to larger meetups and hackathons, enabling developers to connect, learn and share best practices, and she offered more insights into the thinking behind the program in her blog post:
In March, we hosted several regional meetups for our #HelloWorldTour, and it became clear that fostering more local events will help us engage with our community in a more personal way. Our Twitter Developer Community membership has since grown by 10 times, and meetups have sprouted in 14 cities across the globe, thanks to partnerships with trailblazing developer advocates in places like São Paulo, Brazil; Seattle; Kochi, India; and Nairobi, Kenya. We?re ecstatic about the momentum of the communities and how this program will take connecting developers to the next level. Our mission is to meet, learn and champion developers who have built communities and applications with our products. One of our core values is to ?reach every person on the planet,? and we believe supporting community advocacy programs to scale in places we?ve never been before helps us achieve this goal. Our #SmartCityNai...