Actually, let me start with what I don't want to see: 1. Announcements of really cool features coming in the future, because we won't believe that they will ever appear (how are annotations coming along?). 2. Promises of greatly increased rate limits, because every announcement of that in the past failed to materialize. 3. Anything that is intended to wow us with the amazing future of what is back in the lab. See #1. 4. Biz Stone telling amusing anecdotes of all the famous people who have used Twitter. The story about the guy getting arrested in Egypt is moving, but we already watch the Daily Show.
What is really needed is honest discussions about how to create better channels of communication between developers and the Twitter staff. Right now there is nothing beyond this forum. And yes, Taylor and Matt do a great job here. But outside this forum it has become accepted practice to ignore requests and say there isn't enough time to respond. I realize that there are millions of users who post silly questions on the support forum, but there has to be a higher level of access that a real developer can call on. If you held open discussions where other ways of communicating problems and suggested improvements could be hashed out, that would do a lot to improve the relationship with developers. The other thing that is needed is a discussion of how developer can become partners in mutually beneficial business relationships. No, we don't all have millions in VC, but collectively we influence millions of users, and we do that at no cost to Twitter. That is worth promoting. Finally, how about an open source process for creating docs and tutorials. I won't mention how bad the current docs are. What is more amazing is how incorrect they are. How about a real wiki that developers can contribute to. If you learn more from us than we learn from you, you will have run the right kind of event. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
