[m311ton]

I've always thought that live tweeting during conferences was incredibly lame and obnoxious, both as a presenter and an attendee. Rarely do people add value with their live tweets. And when I do want to find something of value at a conference by looking at the tweets, I have to sort through all sorts of crap where people just repeat what the speaker said.

[betterth]

As someone who loves to see what is going on but is never within two thousand miles of where these conferences are held, I love the live tweeting and live blogging.

I get that it may be an annoyance to those who attend, but to the thousands (millions?) who can't attend, it's how we follow as best we can.

[wmf]

What delay would you tolerate? One minute? One hour? One day?

[shinratdr]

Why tolerate a delay when there is no need to? I'm sorry but there is no talk in the world where every single person is going to be completely engaged. This is such a non issue, like a teacher wasting an entire class to discuss a minor discipline problem.

Not every person in every room you're invited to talk to will absorb and care about every word that leaves your mouth. If they're minding their own business then just ignore them.

If you get distracted by people doing it or are bothered by the large number of people doing it, then you need to drastically improve your speaking skills. You distract too easily and/or your talks are boring.