Using Twitter to keep track of the Mix08 conference
I’m a big fan of Twitter. If you haven’t heard of Twitter, it is a simple way to stay connected and communicate using the web. It is useful in its simplicity. Anyone can post and update their status and their followers will be able to see the updates. Twitter is especially useful at conferences to enhance the experience by facilitating the conversations around that conference.
Tomorrow, I’m heading to the Mix08 conference and will be using Twitter to meet up with other attendees, find out what my co-workers are up to, and keep up to date on what’s happening at the conference. I usually check my regular timeline with my twitter client, Witty, to see the latest updates. To get the latest tweets just about the Mix08 conference, I am doing the following:
@Mix08 with Friends
The Mix08 conference has an account on twitter that anyone can follow and it’ll follow you back. I can see all of the updates from the people that @mix08 follows by checking out its with_friends view: http://twitter.com/mix08/with_friends
TweetScan search
TweetScan is a great search engine for Twitter. I can see Mix08 related tweets by searching for "mix08". I can then subscribe to the search results for mix08 feed to see it in my feed reader.
Hashtags
Hashtags can be useful for topic related discussions on twitter. Here is the link to the mix08 hashtag: http://hashtags.org/tag/mix08/
