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How NOT to spam Facebook with your SXSWi Tweets

Every March some 50,000+ people descend on my hometown of Austin, Texas to check out the latest in music, film and interactive tech in a giant marketing orgy called South by Southwest. As an Austin resident, it's the kind of thing where you either want to attend the event, or GTFO. 

It's one of the few times of year when I use Twitter on a regular basis. For the rest of the year, I use Twitter to post random thoughts and short quips. I have set up the "Twitter for Facebook" application to re-post all my tweets to Facebook, so that I can share those self-indulgent remarks with my friends & family in a more directed manner.

Twitter as a Distributed, Threaded Conversation Forum

The other day I was searching for some advice on Ruby on Rails. I got the usual links to message forums, experts exchange, HOWTO articles, documentation and API pages. One of the search results I found was a link to a twitter account. It seemed out of place among the other resources, but I soon discovered that this user is essentially using Twitter (via hash tags) as a gigantic, distributed message forum. And he's not alone.