Updated on 17 November 2009
by Channel 4 News
Avid tweeter Stephen Fry leads the speaker line-up at the first 140 Character Twitter conference in the UK.
Fry, who has almost 1 million twitter followers, will take to the stage at the conference, being held at the O2 Indigo in London, from 9.30am. On the agenda [...]

Mashable and Demand Media’s joint event, Media Mixer LA, the official after party of the 140Conf LA, is this Wednesday, October 28th at the H.Wood. the event starts at 5:00 pm, directly following the 140Conf LA event.
Join the MashableMashable and Demand Media teams along with the 140Conf LA attendees, the local Los Angeles tech [...]

We’re very sorry to report that Barack Obama has never used Twitter. No, I didn’t expect that he personally composed *all* of the Barack Obama account Twitter updates, but some – surely!
In my heart of hearts I always suspected that some of those campaign tweets were from the Blackberry of the great man himself. [...]

Editor’s Note: Third paragraph changed to take out previously incorrect mention involving a person who was laid off from Forbes. We regret the error.
Here’s something you don’t see very often: the Social Media Insider staring at a blinking cursor, with no freakin’ clue as to what the column should be about, five hours into the [...]

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Twitter isn’t the only social media/web-based tool to “democratize” the flow of information, but it has certainly sped up the way that news—not to mention rumors, scams and other potentially discreditable info—is disseminated. At the 140Conf, Arianna Huffington, Peter Hirshberg, Al [...]

Greetings to those of you finding your way here by way of the 140 Characters Conference (#140conf) at the Kodak Theatre, home of the Oscars, in Los Angeles. I’m speaking today, Oct. 27, at 3:35PM PT on the panel Hollywood Politics: The Making of a Twitter Cause Celeb. My co-panelists are Wendy Cohen from Participant [...]

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“Twitter is worth more than a billion dollars,” insists Ron Conway. Conway, a Twitter investor and board member, Spark Capital’s Bijan Sabet and StockTwits backer Howard Lindzon dug into Twitter’s sky-high valuation during the 140Conf today. They also offered up predictions [...]