Twitter at ALIA Access (task 21)

I had my first leap into the world of twitter at the ALIA Access conference last week. Each speaker had it's own twitter stream, so I pulled out my iPod touch, contacted to the free ALIA Access wireless at the convention centre and downloaded the twitter app. Most were very quite, but the ALIA camp stream was tweeting wildly - a lot of the newer librarians in this one I think. A lot of the tweets contained little substance and many simply repeated statements made by the speakers. There was one round of interesting comment that went on regarding LIS education. However, after looking over someone's shoulder during a conference session to see their laptop open with four twitter streams running and seeing this individual regularly tweeting themselves - I do wonder how they were able to pay much attention - if any - to the speaker presenting up the front? Indeed the few times I picked up my iPod to see who and what was tweeting I know I missed what was being said in front of me.