Event hosting

Pitch

One of the main things Facebook is still fantastic for is organizing to host an event (especially invite-only ones). Meetup is widely used for open-invite events as it's more publicly searchable.

Both private gatherings and open-invite meetups could be better served by an open social network. This is one of last features tying users to facebook in my circles.

The changes that would be required, IMO:

For public events

• Being able to embed a start/end time + location in a Toot
• Having an 'attending' (delete if you change to non-attending), which might get special treatment in the frontend (eg a list of who is currently coming).

For private events

• Being able to send a toot to a whitelist of people (or can you already do this)