Linking to this story, Brian Leiter (here) issues a judgment that strikes me as so curmudgeonly as to be perhaps exaggerated on purpose for comic efffect:
it's outrageous, and anyone who live-tweets a conference should be immediately disinvited from the event, and any future ones.
Is this in the neighborhood of being correct?
[Full disclosures. (1) I've never tweated anything, but I often do enjoy reading other people's blog descriptions of conferences that I cannot attend. Some of these are penned in real time as are tweats. (2) I have nothing against curmudgeonliness per se, nor (Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin being my favorite writers) against its use in penning entertaining prose.]
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