Are you attending Edge of the Web, the Western Australian web conference which is kicking off in four weeks time? If you are (or wish you could, but cannot make it), you may be keen to know that many of the speakers and attendees are likely to be also on popular micro-blogging service, Twitter.

We’ve got a Twitter account for Edge of the Web (@eotw), which we’ll be using over the coming weeks, and then over the conference. We have a few plans up our sleeves to involve twitter even more during the conference itself.

You’ll find many of the fine speakers at the conference, in the twitterverse. Here’s a handy list of them;

Chris Messina (@factoryjoe)
Derek Featherstone (@feather)
Cameron Adams (@themaninblue)
Ben Buchanan (@200ok)
Stephen Collins (@trib)
Kai Koenig (@agentK)
Lisa Herrod (@scenariogirl)
Nick Hodge (@NickHodge)
Marc Lehmann (@marclehmann)
Tim Lucas (@toolmantim )
Laurel Papworth (@SilkCharm)
Russ Weakley (@russmaxdesign)

….you can follow their tweets (along with @eotw), in the lead up, during and after Edge of the Web to see reactions, and get involved in the Twitter ‘back channel’. You’ll also find many other attendees over those couple of days also on Twitter – for example, you can find me (@milesb).

This gives us all a great opportunity to interact with each other before the actual conference, and then afterwards as well. All sorts of crazy schemes, start-ups and social events have been hatched over Twitter, and we’ll expect the same in the lead up to November as well. During the conference proper, we hope most people will be paying attention to the presentations, and expect a mad flurry of tweets during breaks and lunch, and then after the event, we’ll see a tweet here and there about how awesome #eotw was!

We’re encouraging everyone to use the hashtag #eotw if posting on Twitter about the conference. This way, you can use the Twitter search page to find #eotw related tweets.

Coming along and plan to twitter? Let us know, below!

Image: Screen grab, twitter.com/eotw

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