Ok, I’m not completely getting it. It is great to twitter and read other people’s tweets at conferences but as Jenny Levine and others point out, these little batches of information about a specific event or topic are ephemeral. Well, I guess you could save these “threads” if you start using an entirely different tool to capture the tweetdata. I’m not sure how much that matters in the grand scheme of Twitterdom but if I understand the use of this tool at conferences and other meetings correctly, you can read the tweets about events that you are not able to attend. Well, that’s the only use of it that I can glean. That and getting other people’s impressions of the same event, meeting, session, presentation, etc. I tried Twittering a conference I attended but since I’m not so great at texting on my phone, I missed a lot of what the presenter said because my focus was elsewhere. I would not go as far as John Stewart has in this skit below. And I am going to give Twitter one more try at a conference I’m attending this weekend. I’m also speaking on a panel discussion on Saturday at 12:00 SLT. The hash mark for the conference is: #VWBPE