Expanded Twitter Integration
One of the first questions people ask themselves when they’re getting ready to go to a conference is “who do I know that will be there?” The shame of it is that there are so many social networks out there that know who you know, but there isn’t an effective way to figure out which of those people are attending the same event you are.
That’s why we’re proud to introduce our expanded Twitter integration today.
If you’ve provided Pathable with your Twitter name when you register, we’ll automatically tell you which of your Twitter friends are attending. Just view your own profile.
This can help you find other interesting people to meet, as well. Visit the profile of someone you respect, and you’ll be able to see which of their Twitter friends are attending.
This is all built with the public Twitter API using publicly accessible data. Pathable never asks you for or stores your Twitter password.
The next question you’re likely to ask, after “who’s going” is “what are they talking about?” Pathable can help you there, as well. We now import all the tweets that include your event’s hash tag and display it on the front page. Plus, we offer a separate view that will show you all the tweets from anyone at the event, whether or not it contains the event hash tag.
Both of these views are updated in near real-time. You’ll see your tweets on the site in less than a minute, so this view can be used as a on-site Twitter projection feed.
This follows on other recent Twitter integration we’ve done, including adding a “Tweet Profile” link to each user’s profile that encourages them to let their friends know that they’re attending your event, creating your own personal viral marketing team.
Now we need to wrap this blog post up and tweet about it.










