#TapIntoTwitter Austin Fall Meetup
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Speakers:
Jerry Chen, Union Metrics @jcsalterego (https://twitter.com/jcsalterego)
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Building a Real-World Product with Twitter Data - The Twitter API is powerful, but with that power comes complexity. Unfortunately, most Twitter API examples don't go much beyond "hello world". We'll discuss how to weave together data from public and enterprise APIs into a real-world application. We'll go beyond the basics to focus on key problems like merging data from REST and streaming endpoints, managing rate limits at scale and handling large volumes of Twitter data.
Jerry has over a decade of technical leadership and experience in operations of large, highly-available infrastructure in the analytics and gaming industries. He currently leads Union Metrics' Engineering team while also serving as Chief GIF Architect.
Harrison Neff, Twitter @harris_0n (https://twitter.com/Harris_0n)
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Future of the Twitter APIs - Harrison will be discussing the future of the Twitter APIs, bots built using these APIS and the DM bot playbook we will be releasing soon.
Harrison is a Partner Engineer at Twitter supporting the Gnip Apis. He graduated from University of Colorado, Boulder with a degree in finance and Information systems and came to Twitter after leaving his role as a commodities futures trader. He is an avid music fan and is currently in the process of teaching himself how to code to better aid Gnip customers.
Steve Blackmon, People Pattern @steveblackmon (https://twitter.com/steveblackmon)
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Introducing Probot - Probot is an open-source twitter chat bot that responds to commands submitted via twitter direct message with brief answer and links to more comprehensive answers. Basic commands specify the domain: for example, /friends /followers /mentions /hashtags /domains as well as arguments such as sorting criteria. Steve will demo Probot, walk-through the code base, explain what someone would need to do to run it behind their own account, and lead a discussion regarding new feature roadmap.
Steve Blackmon is VP of Technology at People Pattern and VP of Apache Streams at the Apache Software Foundation.