If you’re in Los Angeles at the end of October or London in November, you might want to check out 140conf. This conference is dedicated entirely to Twitter as a platform and as a language. While 140conf’s founder, Jeff Pulver, plans to extend the event to microblogging in general, for now it’s staying focused.

Talks about microblogging in 20, 15 and 10 minutes

Talk Twitter!

Photo by Steve Garfield

While 140conf originally focused on the effects of Twitter on the media, advertising, “celebrity” and (maybe) politics, the event outgrew its founder’s expectations. The first conference in New York was a two day event. The program included individual talks as well as panels that lasted 20, 15 or 10 minutes. The talks went through using Twitter for news, athletes, small busineses, corporations, blogs, etc. The speakers have been and will be well known tweeps, for example Tim O’Reilly, the man who coined the term “web 2.0”:

Meet the Twitterati

w00t?! Wyclef Jean!

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Can’t get enough of Twitter? 140conf is the place for you. Where else can you see Tim O’Reilly talk about Twitter as a publishing tool? Gary Vaynerchuck of WineLibrary (and more recently Vaynermedia) talked about scaling… caring. What?! Oh yeah, and Twitter advisor Chris Sacca interviewed multi-platinum musician and producer Wyclef Jean. Let’s not forget Liz Strauss, Steve Rubel, Chris Brogan and Fred Wilson who were also tweeting from 140conf!

London? Los Angeles? w00t!

Meet your fellow microblogger...

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Live in London? Come to Los Angeles! Live in LA? Cross the Atlantic and say hello to good ‘ol London. Live anywhere else in the world? For the avid Twitter user, there’s never been a better reason for visiting both cities. Discuss all things Twitter, meet your fellow microblogger and go for a night on the town.

When Mr. Pulver decides to broaden 140conf to microblogging, you can be sure you’ll see Shout’Em there. You never know, we might show up in LA or London this year as well… Will we see you there?

• October 27/28, Los Angeles
• November 10/11, London