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IxDA’s Interaction’09 in Vancouver this year was a huge success. As, apparently, so was its massive Twitter stream flowing out of every nook and cranny this show had to offer. Rumor had it, we reached #5 world-wide in terms of Twitter volume. With ubiquitous flat screens throughout the Four Seasons and sister hotel down the street, everyone was an instant star with such insights as, “I am sooooo drunk.. double fishing (hah aha) drinks,” and, “Looking for other Australians,” among the more tame. For my own part, I own some confusing low-points in sake-sodden tweets along with my compatriots at other bars (see related blog posts).

For those of you as dumb as me, I offer The Drunk Idiot’s Guide to Twitter. And, for my own part, I’ll be searching for the gmail equivalent of Mail Goggles on Twitter. Let me know if you find it.

I’ve pioneered some of the most sobering and drunken points in my company’s history. Happy to have led the way on both extremes, though I’m finding the middle a better place these days (age will do that to you). Thanks to my employees for not walking when I drunkenly fired them via cell phone calls… especially Feeny who wasn’t quite sure if she should come back after Christmas break so many years back… before current social media tools were a glimmer in anyone’s eyes. Thanks to those who drunkenly fired me back in subsequent years. And thanks to my text message function not burning out out when friends take drunken text aim at me (fortunately offline from the public tweet-stream), if I don’t show up where I’m supposed to be or leave a bar sooner than they might want me to.

As for that thing about the parasite that doesn’t cause diarrhea (and my misspelling of the word in the tweet), I have no idea what it’s all about. It’s just the tip… of the iceburg. Perhaps someone can invent a complementary twitter app (better yet, put it out for iPhone users) so that we can travel back in our Twitter timeline to figure out what the heck we were really talking about.