Chirp: Twitter app development gets big enough for its own conference

It's obvious that the development community for third-party Twitter apps has become pretty huge, but I didn't realize just how huge until Twitter announced its own official developer conference, called Chirp. The creators of the 50,000+ (whoa!) Twitter applications out there will be able to get together in San Francisco next year to talk shop at the event, which doesn't have a set date yet.

In the meantime, Twitter is putting together a developer platform that will include access to the coveted "firehose" of all tweets, which has so far been limited to a handful of applications. The platform will also include better documentation, to encourage new developers to give Twitter apps a try. If you're interested in Chirp, you can go ahead and put your email address in at the Chirp site, and Twitter will email you when they get the details worked out.

[via AppScout]