Live-tweeting (see also live-blogging): Broadcasting messages on twitter in directly relation to and following the goings-on of the event you're currently participating in .
Livetweeting also has the ability to be a kind of note taking. If you've ever watched a live blog, it's the same concept, just with a shorter text field.
If you haven't and have no idea of the concept, here's a recent one:
I know what live tweeting is, I was inviting someone to explain how it is different from tweeting in terms of being an unnecessary distraction. With all the ways slides and videos and blog posts disseminate news following tech conferences I'm having trouble thinking of a less efficient way to do so than for dozens of people to be "live tweeting" nuggets from a talk 140 characters at a time.
This is not twitter-bashing, I really feel that as a matter of basic decency and for their own intellectual growth audiences should be actively listening and making connections so that after the talk they can have something more interesting to say than "tl;dr".
If you are so caught up in your initial reactions to a speaker that you pre-emptively distract yourself you are missing out on a lot of opportunities for insight into yourself and your community. I don't see the value in dozens of people flying to a city just to sit in hotel ballrooms and regurgitate things over the wifi.
Live-tweeting (see also live-blogging): Broadcasting messages on twitter in directly relation to and following the goings-on of the event you're currently participating in .
Livetweeting also has the ability to be a kind of note taking. If you've ever watched a live blog, it's the same concept, just with a shorter text field.
If you haven't and have no idea of the concept, here's a recent one:
http://live.cnet.com/Event/Googles_next_dimension_of_Maps_ev...
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Tweeting: Wow this conference is boring as heck, and the food sucks too #firstworldproblems
Live-tweeting: Foonly just announced that the foomatic v2 will have high-speed backchannel integration! #foocon2012