Event App Gather Rides Facebook, Twitter Social Graphs

The boys on MTV reality hit “Jersey Shore” have “the shirt before the shirt,” and now, Facebook and Twitter users have “the check-in before the check-in” thanks to new iPhone and Android application Gather.

The boys on MTV reality hit “Jersey Shore” have “the shirt before the shirt,” and now, Facebook and Twitter users have “the check-in before the check-in” thanks to new iPhone and Android application Gather.

Gather was created by developers Mikeal Rogers (Yammer, CouchOne, Mozilla) and Max Ogden (open Web, Code for America), and Rogers told TechCrunch they originally set out to code an “achievement engine for the real world,” before switching gears and focusing on creating a meet-up tool for Facebook and Twitter.

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