Tweetpocalypse Now: Buzz Andersen on iOS, Twitter, & the perils of hubris [140 Proof]
Channel: 140 Proof
Date: 2014-12-16

iOS Folklore, Twitter's first @message, competing with Tweetie, selling to Brizzly, and the perils of hubris in app development - a talk by Buzz Andersen at 140 Proof's "HACK DEPLOY SCALE" speaker series.

Tweets of Darkness: An App-Maker's Apocalypse

Buzz Andersen, creator of iOS Twitter client Birdfeed, shares his saga of developing an early Twitter client, Birdfeed, in the early days of Twitter. Learn about an alternate reality where Twitter never happened and the dangers of hubris in software engineering. Subtitled and closed-captioned.

Buzz is principal at Brooklyn Computer Club and a tech industry veteran who previously worked at Apple, Square, and Tumblr, and he created PodWorks and Cocoalicious for the Mac. We thank him for sharing his story.

“We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little we went insane.” - Francis Coppola about Apocalypse Now

You can follow Buzz on Twitter at @buzz. For more tech talks, follow Hack, Deploy, Scale at @hackdeployscale.