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Twitter developer events: Summer 2014

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Our Developer and Platform Relations Team will be all over the globe this summer. Join us at one (or more) of these many events!Read more…

Why I joined Twitter - Andy Piper, Developer Advocate

How I went from enterprise middleware to an open global platform.Read more…

Goal! Detecting the most important World Cup moments

A simple strategy to detect spikes in Tweets and how to create a bell that rings at each goal using Raspberry Pi.Read more…

Guest post: Recordit brings GIFs to Twitter with native OS X integration

At Recordit, our goal is to make capturing and sharing screen captures as fast and easy as possible. When we saw that Twitter opened up GIF support in their API, we couldn’t have been happier.

It only took a few days to integrate Twitter into our Mac app and to scale out our back end for sharing and GIF processing. We’d love to share what we learned about both.

Native Twitter authentication on OS XRead more…

Hacking journalism at the MIT Media Lab

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News Bingo takes home the prize at MIT’s Hacking Journalism, built with Twitter APIs.Read more…

Eighteen awesome hours: The APICon/quest Hackathon 2014

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The team at ProgrammableWeb threw their first Hackathon last week, and we were happy to stay late, snack on pizza and help out some great contestants. After a flurry of API talks (including ours) given by the sponsors, contestants started digging into code and hacking through the night.Read more…

Announcing Beta by Crashlytics

Today our colleagues at Crashlytics – known for delivering high-quality yet lightweight crash reporting for mobile apps – announced that they’re expanding their developer toolset with the launch of Beta by Crashlytics.Read more…

Hangout with @TwitterDev May 29

On May 29 at 1PM PDT, we’re running a Twitter Q&A on Google+ Hangout.Read more…

Connecting to the pulse of the planet with Twitter APIs

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Learn how our APIs can be used to connect to the Twitter platform in innovative ways.Read more…

Twitter Q&A with Sony Playstation 4 Social Team

The Sony team knew that integrating social was going to play a key part in their PlayStation 4 platform strategy. We caught up with them to get their insights on going social and their integration with Twitter.Read more…

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