Slides presented at the #chirppolicy talk at the 2010 Chirp Dev Conference for Twitter Developers.

1. Thursday, April 15, 2010

2. We Have Faith in (Most of) You
a panel with Del Harvey
and the API Policy Brians
Thursday, April 15, 2010

3. Ground Rules for Developers
Thursday, April 15, 2010

4. Ground Rules for Developers
• don’t surprise users in a bad way
Thursday, April 15, 2010

5. Ground Rules for Developers
• don’t surprise users in a bad way
• don’t create or distribute spam
Thursday, April 15, 2010

6. Ground Rules for Developers
• don’t surprise users in a bad way
• don’t create or distribute spam
• respect user privacy
Thursday, April 15, 2010

7. Ground Rules for Developers
• don’t surprise users in a bad way
• don’t create or distribute spam
• respect user privacy
• adhere to our trademark and display guidelines
Thursday, April 15, 2010

8. Ground Rules for Developers
• don’t surprise users in a bad way
• don’t create or distribute spam
• respect user privacy
• adhere to our trademark and display guidelines
• reach out to us with questions and suggestions
Thursday, April 15, 2010

9. Ground Rules for Developers
• don’t surprise users in a bad way
• don’t create or distribute spam
• respect user privacy
• adhere to our trademark and display guidelines
• reach out to us with questions and suggestions
• adhere to our Terms of Service and the Twitter Rules
Thursday, April 15, 2010

10. Ground Rules for Developers
• don’t surprise users in a bad way
• don’t create or distribute spam
• respect user privacy
• adhere to our trademark and display guidelines
• reach out to us with questions and suggestions
• adhere to our Terms of Service and the Twitter Rules
• be awesome
Thursday, April 15, 2010

11. What Led to Those Ground
Rules, Anyway?
Thursday, April 15, 2010

12. What Led to Those Ground
Rules, Anyway?
• horrible things. what, you wanted details? fine.
Thursday, April 15, 2010

13. What Led to Those Ground
Rules, Anyway?
• horrible things. what, you wanted details? fine.
• misleading descriptions of app functions resulted in
unsettled and upset users
Thursday, April 15, 2010

14. What Led to Those Ground
Rules, Anyway?
• horrible things. what, you wanted details? fine.
• misleading descriptions of app functions resulted in
unsettled and upset users
• spam sucks and creates a bad user experience
Thursday, April 15, 2010

15. What Led to Those Ground
Rules, Anyway?
• horrible things. what, you wanted details? fine.
• misleading descriptions of app functions resulted in
unsettled and upset users
• spam sucks and creates a bad user experience
• privacy is important and users care a lot about it (and they
should!)
Thursday, April 15, 2010

16. What Led to Those Ground
Rules, Anyway?
• horrible things. what, you wanted details? fine.
• misleading descriptions of app functions resulted in
unsettled and upset users
• spam sucks and creates a bad user experience
• privacy is important and users care a lot about it (and they
should!)
• guidelines help us ensure things are rendered accurately
Thursday, April 15, 2010

17. What Led to Those Ground
Rules, Anyway?
• horrible things. what, you wanted details? fine.
• misleading descriptions of app functions resulted in
unsettled and upset users
• spam sucks and creates a bad user experience
• privacy is important and users care a lot about it (and they
should!)
• guidelines help us ensure things are rendered accurately
• awesomeness is awesome
Thursday, April 15, 2010

18. So. What do YOU
want to talk about?
Thursday, April 15, 2010