Proxlet: Your Antiemetic Therapy for Twomiting

Very useful, Julius. I would be particularly interested in how you would educate attendees about tweeting more appropriate content from conferences. Have you written a blog post on this subject somewhere? Maybe we should have a Twitter chat on this topic.

Great post. I’ve always been frustrated by “tweeters” who overload my feed with play-by-plays of their day or parties they are at. Its important to remember that the internet world is the same as the real world: would you talk non-stop to an acquaintance about every little detail in your day without pause? Or would it be more meaningful to give the essential meaning, leaving room for conversation with those with whom you’re interacting? The same goes for twitter.

Julius. You hit a nerve. I also have used Proxlet with total joy to silence the noisy in such circumstances, yet the ‘solution’ is relatively easy for conference tweeters. The issue is that as with all technology it’s people’s use of it, or should i say abuse of it, that is the hardest thing to change. So we just don’t bother and use ever smarter tools to filter. If I am at a conference and i want to stream the snippets from the stage, then I might @ the speaker in a succession of tweets that I hashtag. Followers can decide from a 1 in every 25 min update if they want to join in. 9/10 its better to concentrate on the conference and follow up with a thoughtful post – but alas no, our obsessions with realtime have erroneously substituted our respect for relevancy nowadays.