Some people don’t get twitter, fair enough. Some people don’t like the back channel at conferences, maybe they think it is distracting delegates from listening to the presentations, fair enough. Some people tweet way too much, that’s me.
At a conference the tweetstream is a conversation, often irreverent, frequently sharp and observant, sometimes puncturing pomposity (not that I am suggesting any existed at W3G or GeoCom) and nearly always humourous. If you are wondering what the geotwiteratti were chatting about you don’t need to join twitter you can just read these tweetdocs from W3G and GeoCommunity
Simon Doyle, the chair of GeoCommunity asked us to tweet responsibly, I think we did.
Interesting, useful or pointless? Let me know what you think.
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I assume that all the requests to tweet/walk/eat/use laptops/wifi responsibly were a result of negative feedback from last year. Shame- the twitter back channel is increasingly becoming an important part of the conference- particularly as a way of vicariously checking out what’s going on in the other streams!