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Lawrence Coburn
twine for Zoom — Speed networking and matchmaking on Zoom
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Zoom Breakout Rooms, made easy. Automatically match your Zoom meeting participants for timed, back-to-back conversations based on any variable the host determines. Speed networking, mentor-mentee matching, & more.

Bring connection back to your team.
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Aaron Schwartz
love love love this. congrats on the new launch!!
Matt Divack
Love this product and team. Congrats on the big launch!
Lawrence Coburn
@mcdivs28 Thanks Matt!
Matthew Johnson
Congrats on the launch!
Hunter Block
This looks awesome. Congrats on the launch!
Taylor McLoughlin
@hunterblock Thanks for the support!
Abu Huraira Bin Aman
Great tool, Best wishes for the twine team.
Ross Mayfield
This is a great Zoom App for helping distributed employees connect with each other and attendee networking. Highly recommended. Congrats on launching!
Taylor McLoughlin
@ross Thanks for all the support, we couldn't have done it without you and your team!
Tomasz Krakowiak
really cool product. cant wait to try it once we have more ppl on board
Adil Minocherhomjee
This app is so much fun to use. I’ve made many deeper connections with coworkers through Twine! Put this in front of your HR folks - they’ll love you.
Anh Nguyen
@adil_minocherhomjee1 Yay! Thanks, Adil! Can't wait to show it to the rest of your team
palash soni
The Twine team and product is 🔥
I recently worked with Welo for an event and I knew they just launched a Zoom app and the Marketplace just launched. Is crazy how fast we're seeing great app additions to the ecosystem! I'll for sure use this app for team building exercises 🙌
Clint Chao
It's been great to watch you develop this awesome product, which is one of the first full fledged enterprise culture building products designed during and built for the post-COVID era. Regardless of work configuration, every company will have some or all team members remotely located, and twine for Zoom keeps keeps them engaged via the platform that they already likely use every day for team communication. Congrats @ltrain @tmcloughlin and the whole team at twine!
Taylor McLoughlin
@clint_chao Thanks for the continued support - we're grateful for all you guys do!
Brian Li
So proud of @omurray @samantha_steger1 @austin_carter2 and the entire twine team for bringing such a fantastic and needed product to the market!!!
Austin Carter
Thanks @brian_li3! Couldn't have done it without you
Lawrence Coburn
@omurray @samantha_steger1 @austin_carter2 @brian_li3 Thanks Brian! Thanks to you and Helena for your vision!
Michelle Marcelline
Congrats on the launch @helenamerk! 🎉
Lawrence Coburn
Hi everyone! 👋 We are thrilled to be releasing twine for Zoom, the ultimate Zoom Breakout Room management and speed networking tool! 🎉 So it’s been a crazy journey for us over here at twine. Our original mission was to end loneliness. Our first app, due to launch in March, 2020, was a face to face serendipity app that was somewhere between Sofar Sounds and a Church for the Rest of Us. 🤝 Then Covid happened, and it became clear that the problem of the Moment was how to connect people, meaningfully, online. It also became clear that we had to bring our tech to where the people were, and the people were on Zoom. 🖥️ In February, we teamed up with the amazing team over at Glimpse, and together we have put the finishing touches on twine for Zoom; the first app to bring true serendipity to Zoom.💫 Here’s what you can do on twine for Zoom: 🪢 Automatically sort participants into roulette style Breakout Rooms for timed, back-to-back small group or 1:1 conversations 👀 Set custom sorting rules for Breakout Rooms based on any variable you choose; match mentors with mentees, HR with new hires, students with research assistants… 🗺️ Create themed tables in Map Mode; participants can hop in and out of Breakout Rooms as they please 💬 Message across Breakout Rooms, with individuals, or with the whole group; return to your messages even once the meeting has ended. 💥Click through icebreakers while in a Breakout Room to get the conversation flowing. 🧑‍🤝‍🧑Use pre-set templates such as “Speed Networking” or “Mentor/Mentee” for one-click setup Here’s what you’ll be able to do with t4z in the coming weeks: ✅ Assign tasks to Breakout Rooms and monitor progress as the host 🔍 Customize & upload your own conversation prompts 📽️ Embed video, audio, images 📊 Detailed analytics dashboards & participant profiles I use twine for Zoom at every all hands. I use it on my big family Zooms. 👪 We use it when we hire new folks, to help them meet and get to know the whole team. We are getting approached by universities, by dating communities, by DAOs, by non profits - anybody who wants to build connection amongst a community. If your team has a meeting today, feel free to open the twine for Zoom app and run a couple rounds! I’ll be here all day welcoming feedback. Finally, a special shout out to the amazing @helenamerk and @brian_li3 for starting this exciting project nearly 12 months ago - we wouldn’t be here without you all! 🙏
Lawrence Coburn
Punchtownparry
A great Zoom App
Lawrence Coburn
@punchtownparry1 Thanks Adam!
Marcin Demkowicz
Well done! Great features, much needed in this increasingly-remote world. Congratulations on the launch, team twine!
Taylor McLoughlin
@martin_demkowicz Thanks so much for the support!
Diane Li
congrats! this is so helpful for virtual event organizing :)
Taylor McLoughlin
Hey everyone, I’m overjoyed to be sharing twine for Zoom with the community! I started building social software to foster in-person connections pre-pandemic. Since then we shifted focus to virtual, starting with our own web platform. As the world shifts to a new equilibrium one thing is clear - distributed work is here to stay and Zoom is a major platform for this new age of work. Zoom is everywhere, it got us all through the pandemic. Their developer ecosystem is ushering in an exciting evolution of Zoom, and we're excited to be building with them. A major hurdle for building apps like twine on Zoom is meeting the expectation Zoom users have that the product just works. The challenge is meaningful if you consider the multitude of ways someone can join a Zoom - on mobile, through many web browsers, and on various versions of Zoom’s desktop client. To meet expectations we took a phased approach to app adoption and functionality. Building for the Base Case For many virtual events, the most common networking experience hosts want to implement is speed networking - timed, randomized rounds of matches. Before twine for Zoom, hosts had to manually assign participants, open breakout rooms, close breakouts, and then recreate assignments and reopen breakouts. We architected twine for Zoom in a way that enables hosts to automate speed networking with a single button without requiring participants to have the app. Participants can join from any device type, browser, and Zoom version and still participate. Unlocking Advanced Use Cases There will always be power users who want to elevate their Zoom meetings and events. With twine for Zoom, you can add tag-based matchmaking experiences as well as spatial maps of tables to give participants choice as to who they meet. These modes previously required every participant to have the app installed in order to interact with tags and spatial maps. Installing a Zoom App can prove to be tricky depending on the type of Zoom account being used. Recent innovations from the Zoom Apps team have addressed this point of friction by enabling app access without requiring an installation. Now getting a room full of participants into twine for Zoom is as simple as one click. 🪢 I couldn’t be more proud of how our team, our customers, and the Zoom Apps team have come together to build something special. Shout out to @ross, @simplyarun, and team at Zoom for building such an amazing developer platform and community! If you ever want to share feedback, get a demo, or just talk shop feel free to reach out to me at taylor@twine.nyc!
Ashley Phelps
Love twine! Remote work life is so challenging when it comes to getting to know your colleagues. Twine makes it easier (and less awkward for introverts like me) to get the conversation started and engage with new teammates.
Ashley Porciuncula
This is brilliant! Good job team!