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Why Doesn’t Twitter Like Conferences?

By Mark Evans | Published: June 2, 2010
You figure with more than $100-million in venture capital, Twitter could work out how to handle large amounts of traffic coming from a conference or event. Unfortunately, Twitter has decided if a lot of traffic is coming from one IP address, it needs to be rate-limited. At the MagNet conference today in Toronto, which isn’t a [...]
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140 Character Conference’s Impressive Line-Up

By Mark Evans | Published: June 16, 2009
A quick look through the speakers at Jeff Pulver’s 140 Characters conference looks impressive, particularly getting Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey to kick things off. It’s one of those conferences that I would have been a great excuse to go to NYC. From a business perspective, the question is whether Pulver has found his next pot of gold? [...]
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It’s a Conference-Palooza

By Mark Evans | Published: May 24, 2009
As Twitterrati noted a month ago and TechCrunch shines the spotlight on, the number of Twitter conferences continues to grow by leaps and bounds. If Twitter continues to establish itself as a major communications platform, there’s a huge opportunity for someone to become the conference – much like Jeff Pulver did for VoIP and Tim [...]
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