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An Invitation to BAU Students from Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey

An Invitation to BAU Students from Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey
The founder of Twitter, the social media platform, Jack Dorsey invited two software engineering students from Bahcesehir University to the United States.

Jack Dorsey, Founding Chairman of the social media platform Twitter, has invited two students from the Bahçeşehir University (BAU) Software Engineering program to the United States. BAU students Batuhan Katırcı and Cihan Nalbant, who found a system vulnerability in Twitter, closed it with software they developed and reported it to Twitter officials, will travel to San Francisco, where the company's headquarters is located.

Twitter, the world's most influential microblogging site, and Periscope, one of the companies it owns, are opening their doors to two Turkish students. Bahçeşehir University (BAU) Software Engineering students Batuhan Katırcı and Cihan Nalbant, who drew attention with the solutions they developed after finding vulnerabilities in both Twitter and Periscope, will travel to San Francisco at the invitation of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. Katırcı and Nalbant will take part in "Twitter Flight," an event Twitter will hold with industry leaders and engineers from around the world, where Twitter's new products will also be introduced.

The "Twitter Flight" event on 21 October, where Jack Dorsey and the team leaders of Fabric, Gnip, Periscope and Twitter will present their latest application solutions and innovations on the Twitter platform, brings together not only engineers and industry leaders but also successful application developers from around the world.

Noticed by Twitter for the applications they developed and specially invited for reporting software vulnerabilities in the system, the students will have the opportunity through this event to introduce both themselves and their projects to investors in San Francisco, the heart of the digital world. Batuhan Katırcı and Cihan Nalbant will also have the opportunity to learn from industry leaders how they use Twitter as a business model.