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I saw a useful application of Twitter yesterday during the very first session of Web 2.0 Expo.

Rob Hayes and Jeff Clavier, 2 well regarded Venture Capitalists, ran a rather lengthy (3hr) workshop on Financing and Growing Your Web 2.0 Start-Up.

For the very first session out of the gate, the attendance was impressive (easily 300+ people).

To promote questions, Jeff and Rob had set up their own Twitter account and anyone in the audience who wanted to ask a question, simply sent them a “tweet”. They had one of their laptops plugged into the projectors and the entire group could see the questions come up in real time. Which was actually quite cool. And more importantly, useful. Because you could ensure that the same questions weren’t asked twice.

I have an admission to make though. I probably arrived 10 minutes into the session and missed the whole “just send us a “tweet”" thing. By the end of the session, I still for the life of me, couldn’t figure out how to send a question. Sure, I know how to “follow” someone on Twitter but the whole “messaging” between each other still has me stumped.

Maybe its the jetlag. Or the bottle of wine we drank the night before.

Maybe Twitter isn’t designed for people over 40. Maybe it’s just me.

Never mind. Most of the audience got it. And it was probably the best use application of technology, that was 100% spot on, for the time and place.

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