Twitter's Ultimate Tweetup: The 140 Characters Conference

Leave it to @JeffPulver to come up with this impossibly zeitgeisty event idea — a Twitter-specific 2 day love-in with the achingly appropriate name the "140 Characters Conference".

For two days in New York this June 16-17, 2009, the Twitterati's most re-tweeted tweeps will twit and tweet their way into the hearts and minds of many a new follower, as they spew forth a myriad lifesoupstream of supposed social media expertise and ever-so-fleetingly-meta- mini-tweet memes.

With all the attention the 3-year-old Twitter is getting at the moment, this sure to sell-out conference — aka #NYCthrowdown, aka the #ultimatetweetup — is both an inevitability, a necessary evil, and a great way to capitalize on the millions of recently rabid adopters of this soon-to-be-shark-jumping microblogging app.

Indeed, a Twitter conference about people using Twitter — one in which 100% of the attendees will invariably be twittering every waking minute of its (and their own) proceedings — will virtually guarantee the 140 Characters Conference to be one of the most shamelessly self-serving and narcissistic undertakings the internet has ever known — and one of the least necessary to attend.

Just cue up the ol' Twitter search, tweeple, and get thine #140conf hashtags at the ready — there's a new trending topic in town...and it's all about...well...Twitter.

Go figure.

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