Idea #38: Who Comes to My Events?
Hit up the Facebook, Plancast, EventBrite, and Tweetvite APIs (others?) to pull attendee (or at least those who showed an interest in an event) lists and collate those users for event organizers. If they created a Gowalla Event, pull those who checked in. Build Twitter lists of those identified in relation to the event.
This is a need right now, methinks.
Known implementations: None
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Hi Damon,
If you are selling tickets on sites like Eventbrite, you probably have the best information available on Eventbrite. I agree this is a problem when the event is free, where organizers spread information and RSVPs across all those sites. Another problem is that someone may RSVP twice, say on Facebook and Eventbrite.
We believe mobile technologies tied with additional value provided by services will fix this problem. Right now, services like Facebook events do not help much event organizers beyond spreading the world about the event.
Rodrigo
thanks for the comment, Rodrigo. Even on EventBrite, do they offer an export to Twitter lists?
btw, I signed up for wellknown.as recently, as I am attending 360idev. looking forward to trying it out.
While not *exactly* what you’re taking about, there is an “I’m Attending” marker on each event on Joind.in (disclaimer, I’m a lead developer on the site). Obviously it’s only for events listed on the site, but it does give you an idea of who was/will be there.
There’s not a method in our API to grab that information though (yet). It can be exported along with the event information for event admins.