18th
I’m looking forward to this panel. Not just because I like Nick and Adam, but because I’m one of the weirdos who approaches Twitter as a creative/expressive outlet. Now, I’m nowhere near as good at it as Nick or Adam - or a massive, sexy handful of others I follow - but I try.
Nick’s got my vote, my attendance, and my thanks for mentioning one of my own proposals to boot.
The conference: South by Southwest (SXSW) is space camp for tech, film, and music nerds. There’s drinking, and some eating, and other drinking. There are panels so there’s a room to sit quietly in during hangovers.
The title: Slow Twitter: Users who take their time tweeting
The description: Twitter twitter twitter, twitter twitter, twitter!
The actual description: Slow Twitter is like Slow Food, but much sillier. The people who use the most impulse-driven site for the most thought-out one-liners have created a new art form with its own poetic language, economy of space, and a million ways to joke about being drunk, naked and crying on a Monday.
A panel of witty Twitter users, moderated by the editor of the book “Twitter Wit,” will discuss what goes into writing a good tweet, why Twitter is a legit form of literature, and why already-famous writers and comedians should “waste” their best ideas on Twitter.
The panelists: So far, Adam Lisagor (lonelysandwich) is signed on (he’s double-fisting Twitter panels this year), and we’re considering a few other top Twitter users. Email nick@toomuchnick.com if you’re a damn good tweeter (whether funny or just careful) and you want to apply.
And please, sign in and vote for my panel. You’ll be earning a few Twitter users a free pass to SXSW and encouraging more people to tweet smartly.
