Never heard of ego-blogging before.

It’s JUST noise. It stops being of value, when there are thousands of identical tweets.

I like your idea of panel members sharing the experience.

Airheads tweet just to show they are there-Period!!!

Your post totally missed the fact that these social media rock stars then sell their worthless merchandise at these expos.

Sheep and shepherds man. Sheep and shepherds.

My distaste for self promotion, disguised as ’social media’ means I found it impossible to offer as balanced a post as I probably should have.

Since I’m not familiar with who your following its always going to be hard to debate but it may have been one of those occasions that a large conference attracted a large group of people you happen to follow and this caused the deluge of similar tweets, just one of those things you have inadvertently suffered from.

I guess my point is that each of the people there have more followers who haven’t got the same overlap in following as you have experienced and they want to stay in touch with them directly, they cant DM everyone, and keep them up to date on what happens.

No way around it, and no way to negate it as each person will have no idea about the other persons network!

I can see how it would become annoying very quickly though, but like I said, I see no way around it apart from unfollowing to reduce the repetition and noise but that seems a bit extreme if the person is updating their network and is unaware of others updating you at the same time! (There are of course more variables to this and it is down to personal preference and experience).

Baring in mind that its also a load of techies at this conference, you can be the one to try telling them to stop, I’m not that brave (or insane)!

As you’re someone who has been the subject of much live blogging yourself, your comment is extremely relevant.

Louis has also written a superb post on the subject here: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/10/hey-bloggers-step-away-from-twitter-for.html

I will absolutely be blogging the panels in my usual long-form way though, trying to analyze the content as quick as possible. I love blogging and it would be great to see more people keeping with it.

But why do you think there’s a ‘need’ for 1000 people IN THE SAME ROOM, to say the same thing, about the same speakers, on the same panels, using the same hashtag?

Its more a reflection on who you are following and in this particular case it was a large group of people at the same event who want to let their followers know whats happening. It just happened to be the case that the tech news blog was following alot of tech people who move in similar circles!

I dont think its a negative thing, quite the opposite in fact.

This will inevitably occur, based on events (the death of M. Jackson for example) where some information will be repeated by multiple sources.

That being said, a longer blog post with more considered reflection is always a good thing and can develop the opinions lashed out on twitter to a much greater extent. In the meantime, just ignore it if its not relevant, it is a lot of people talking at a highly charged and excitable event.

At least thats my take on it, maybe they are all dosh bags… :P