Grounded: Twitter Scraps Flight Developers Conference In Favor of Local Events

Facebook announced the dates for its next F8 annual developer conference, but what happened to Flight, Twitter’s similar event for mobile developers?

Facebook announced the dates for its next F8 annual developer conference, but what happened to Flight, Twitter’s similar event for mobile developers?

Flight had taken place in October the past two years, but Twitter director of communications Will Stickney confirmed to Kurt Wagner of Recode that the social network shifted its focus to smaller, local events for developers.

Stickney shared the following statement with Wagner:

We heard feedback after last year’s Flight conference that small, more intimate events are where our developer community is seeing the most value.

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