Twitter is canceling its Chirp convention for builders amid administration transition, the corporate mentioned late Thursday. After Elon Musk took over the corporate final month, there have been a number of government exits and directional modifications within the firm’s product technique. So it isn’t stunning that social community is abandoning its plan for the convention’s return after greater than a decade of hiatus.

In a tweet, Twitter’s official account for developer-related bulletins mentioned that the corporate is “exhausting at work to make Twitter higher for everybody, together with builders” and it would quickly share some information concerning the subject.

The corporate’s head of developer merchandise, Amir Shevat, didn’t present any particulars concerning the cause behind canceling the convention and simply tweeted “Winds of change” as a response to it.

In June, Parag Agarwal-led Twitter introduced that it’s bringing again the Chirp convention in November. The corporate additionally opened up a contest for builders to indicate artistic use instances of its new v2 API with costs like $10,000 for winners of various classes and free entry to the enterprise tier of the API for a 12 months.

Twitter first held Chirp in 2010 however deserted the occasion the subsequent 12 months. Whereas the platform has had a strenuous relationship with builders within the final decade, it was making an attempt to win the neighborhood again with new applications and a refreshed API. What’s extra, the corporate opened up API entry to tutorial researchers final 12 months.

Earlier this 12 months, it debuted a program referred to as Twitter Toolbox, which highlighted some third-party apps. At the moment, Shevat additionally mentioned that the corporate was open to exploring fashions like Twitter’s personal app retailer.

Final week, Twitter opened up new endpoints to direct messages by way of the v2 API that allows third-party apps to supply a greater DM expertise to customers.

It’s unclear what Twitter for builders will seem like within the Musk period. The Tesla CEO has given indications of engineering-led Twitter a number of instances, so builders will hope that they may get higher entry to the corporate’s instruments.

There shall be questions on what occurs to merchandise like Tweetdeck. The corporate began testing a brand new model final 12 months with the hope to make it a paid product. Earlier this 12 months, findings by app researcher Jane Manchun Wong advised that Twitter may give entry to Tweetdeck by way of its Twitter Blue program. However since Musk is overhauling the subscription program in a large means, there isn’t any means to make sure Tweetdeck could have a spot there.