It gives me great pleasure to announce that we will be running the world's first event focused on bringing together the Twitter development community. If you are a developer that has built or intends to build a Twitter application, please make sure you grab a ticket for the event which will take place on the evening of the 24th March at the Sun Microsystems Customer Briefing Center in London. Full details at twitterdevelopernest.com One of the key aspects that Twitter credits with much of its success is its API (Application Programming Interface). Twitter's API is what has made it possible for so many third party applications to be built that leverage the wealth of data and unique communication capabilities that Twitter provides. You can find out about many of the available applications on the Twitter Wiki. We've been using the API internally at Inuda for over 18 months and more and more of the work we do is focused on using it. Members of our team were amongst the first 500 people to use Twitter back in July 2006. We were also recently lucky enough to be chosen as one of just 150 developers given access to their new OAuth beta programme. This provides a new way of using the API that means that users should never again have to share their passwords with third party applications. We're hoping the Twitter Developer Nest, inspired by the successful Facebook Developer Garage, leads to some interesting collaborations between developers. Hopefully this will result in even more useful Twitter applications launching to its rapidly growing userbase. We're very grateful for the support of Sun Microsystems Startup Essentials who are sponsoring the event by providing the venue and food and drink.