Comments on: Conference Twittering

By: Brian Christiansen

Brian Christiansen — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:38:29 +0000

Hey Whitney! I'm finding this post a month late, I realize. I've just met you at UI13 (a pleasure, would have loved to talk with you more) and even asked you about your conference twittering. As people who put on a conference, we're of course happy you're putting #ui13 into the Twitterverse 137 times an hour. It's good for us.

[What follows is my personal take on this, as a follower of yours. Of course, it's a free country, you may do anything you'd like to.]

As an avid user of Twitter, your posts can absolutely take over my entire Twitter experience, drowning out other people. If your conference doesn't interest me, my first instinct would be to drop you (and hope to remember to re-add you when you're away from conferences). This is made difficult by twitter not having things like temp-unfollows/mute options.

Have you ever considered taking notes in a blog post, and then Twittering links back to it on the fly, maybe with a choice quote?

"If you don't do research, you're screwed." - J.Spool; — liveblogging UI13 here! http://xrl.us/fakeurl/

[I'd probably actually type it into a text editor and paste into blog/twitter so that a) I had a local copy (backup), and b) less chance of browser crash taking out my notes.]

Personally, this is what I would find as the most valuable information to someone who's not attending the same conference as you.

Just my two cents.

Best,
~brian

By: Mario Bourque

Mario Bourque — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:19:19 +0000

If certain people do not like it, they do not have to follow you on twitter.

Do not change EVER, that would suck.

By: RyanMoede

RyanMoede — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:26:20 +0000

I for one appreciated your diligent note-taking on Twitter – it was super-helpful to get a thorough recap of the sessions I couldn't attend at Web 2.0. That said, I'd be in favor for a Pause button on Twitter for those whose note-taking on Twitter isn't up to the same quality as yours!

By: Whitney Hess

Whitney Hess — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:32:14 +0000

Very good to know about that. I'll pass it on to Disqus. Thanks for letting me know, Matt, and sorry!

By: Matthew Oliphant

Matthew Oliphant — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:20:34 +0000

I wrote a longish comment but lost it when I clicked the Record Video Comment to see what would happen. It removed these comment boxes and there was no way to get back. File this under “pain.”

By: Cennydd Bowles

Cennydd Bowles — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:12:03 +0000

Hi Whitney – I'm one of the people who unfollowed you over the weekend – but I applaud this post. Use Twitter however you like; it's great that you're not one of those people who seem to live by the number of followers they have. From my PoV, I'm close to my limit of manageable follows and conference tweets tend to push the input rate past my cognitive threshold. It's nothing personal of course, and I reserve the right to refollow at some point :)

There is of course the ongoing debate about whether Twitter should have a Pause function – interested to hear your thoughts.

By: Stephen Michael Kellat

Stephen Michael Kellat — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:26:56 +0000

I understand where you are coming from on this. I appreciate your insights from what you have been attending out there. Keep up the good work.