Application developers in the country soon will have a chance to experience advanced tools from Twitter to help them create more sophisticated apps.
The micro-blogging site, which recently launched its worldwide tour ‘Twitter Flock’, will host Asia’s first roadshow in Bengaluru on May 13. The event is coming to India after its visit to London, Berlin and New York.
“India is one of the fastest-growing markets for Twitter today, and is home to many top technology developers in Asia. Our inaugural Flock mobile developer roadshow now comes to India; Bengaluru will play host to some of the country’s best developers on the May 13,” said Arvinder Gujral, Director, Business Development, South and Southeast Asia in a blogpost.
According to the agenda, the conference will begin in the afternoon and will continue till 7 p.m. At the event, Twitter will introduce Fabric, a modular mobile platform, which it launched in its first developer conference in October last. The platform will help a developer to build mobile apps much easier.
Several software engineers, product managers and developer advocates from the Fabric team will join a number of Indian mobile app developers at the event. The event will also provide opportunity for Indian developers to hear from the team that built the platform.
“Throughout the event, we will share details on our technology solutions to support you in developing better applications,” added Mr. Gujral.
Twitter’s plan to conduct its event in India comes as a certification for the growing start-up activity in the country. Earlier this year, Twitter had made its first acquisition in India by buying Zipdial. The buy gave Twitter about 50 employees in India and also a new engineering office in India.
“For Twitter, India and Indonesia are huge markets. Lot of applications are being built using Twitter API in India. It also has a R&D centre now in India with the acquisition. The plan of Twitter to organise its developer conference in India itself is a huge endorsement for the start-up community,” said Sharad Sharma, co-founder of software product think-tank iSpirt.
