Comments on: Tweeting MiT6 http://alex.halavais.net/tweeting-mit6 Things that interest me. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:34:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: meghan dougherty http://alex.halavais.net/tweeting-mit6/comment-page-1#comment-207390 meghan dougherty Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:54:32 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/?p=2341#comment-207390 Thanks for posting this. I'm usually a Twitter-hater, but found it interesting ("useful" might be a stretch here) during MiT6. Yes, there's lots of noise, but unless you're already oversubscribed in your daily twitter-life, it is easy to edit out personal convos and backchannel. I am hoping that the next conference I go to will be twitter-tastic, too - hoping a little bit for more substantive tweets. Thanks for posting this. I’m usually a Twitter-hater, but found it interesting (“useful” might be a stretch here) during MiT6. Yes, there’s lots of noise, but unless you’re already oversubscribed in your daily twitter-life, it is easy to edit out personal convos and backchannel. I am hoping that the next conference I go to will be twitter-tastic, too – hoping a little bit for more substantive tweets.

]]> By: Julie Levin Russo http://alex.halavais.net/tweeting-mit6/comment-page-1#comment-207388 Julie Levin Russo Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:34:49 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/?p=2341#comment-207388 I sympathize with those who had their stream flooded with livetweeting -- I've suffered through conferences that I'm irrelevant to me this way. In addition to @mamamusing's suggestion of "muting" certain people, I'd like to see a client that can exclude tweets by hashtag. In the future, it would be great to see twitter "groups" that are more functional. But I wouldn't want to give up twitter at conferences... until the next best thing comes along! I sympathize with those who had their stream flooded with livetweeting — I’ve suffered through conferences that I’m irrelevant to me this way. In addition to @mamamusing’s suggestion of “muting” certain people, I’d like to see a client that can exclude tweets by hashtag. In the future, it would be great to see twitter “groups” that are more functional. But I wouldn’t want to give up twitter at conferences… until the next best thing comes along!

]]> By: Derek Kompare http://alex.halavais.net/tweeting-mit6/comment-page-1#comment-207378 Derek Kompare Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:44:38 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/?p=2341#comment-207378 F1R5t!!! Sorry. Couldn't resist. As someone who's attempted live-blogging and always given up after about a panel and a half, I found the tweeting a mixed bag. I agree that it was great to see what was going on in other panels, and the stream of updates, URLs, and the occasional bit of outside news (e.g., Bea Arthur) kept things fresh. That said, I know I could have gotten more down had I gone old-school with my usual technique (pen and notebook). I went in wanting to tweet up a storm as an experiment, and I'm glad I did. I know several people who weren't there followed the conference via Twitter, which is something that's much more difficult to do live-blogging it (on a few dozen blogs). I also know that this volume is only possible at WiFi-rich venues, which these days still rules out your standard convention hotel. I'd be curious to see what other data could be carved out of this, and whether the non-tweeters (or newbie tweeters) found it useful or not. F1R5t!!!

Sorry. Couldn’t resist.

As someone who’s attempted live-blogging and always given up after about a panel and a half, I found the tweeting a mixed bag. I agree that it was great to see what was going on in other panels, and the stream of updates, URLs, and the occasional bit of outside news (e.g., Bea Arthur) kept things fresh. That said, I know I could have gotten more down had I gone old-school with my usual technique (pen and notebook). I went in wanting to tweet up a storm as an experiment, and I’m glad I did.

I know several people who weren’t there followed the conference via Twitter, which is something that’s much more difficult to do live-blogging it (on a few dozen blogs). I also know that this volume is only possible at WiFi-rich venues, which these days still rules out your standard convention hotel. I’d be curious to see what other data could be carved out of this, and whether the non-tweeters (or newbie tweeters) found it useful or not.

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