Some time ago I was talking social networking with a friend and colleague, and we were discussing Twitter among other services. His main argument was “why would someone be interested in what you were doing a couple of minute ago”. I must say I was kinda skeptical towards Twitter in the beginning. I saw a lot of people using it on their sites, but what I saw were things like “I am chasing my cat around because it just whizzed on the carpet..” or something like that. Indeed, judging by this example one might ask what the value in such a service really is. Well, at the Web 2.0 Summit, there was a situation where Twitter was actually used to bypass a bad network connectivity problem. As you can see in this post on WebWare, there seemed to be a problem with spotty network connectivity, so participants decided to Twitter this conference.

Take a look at this twittercast from the Web 2.0 Summit. This may just be the alternative to live blogging from conferences, although there is no pictures and videos (but then again, this would require good network connectivity, which as mentioned, wasn’t present). Here is the twittercast from Web 2.0 Summit:

It seems we have a new term in the Internet glossary - twittercast - live coverage from an event through the use of Twitter.

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