SessionTweets: Follow the Tags And Generate PDFs For Your Favorite SXSW Panels

by Rob on March 11, 2010

Twitter has become the backchannel of discussion at many conferences, particularly SXSW. Since we created PDF books of tweets for all our users (and they are pretty popular), we decided to do the same thing for SXSW. So we built SessionTweets.

SessionTweets generates a daily PDF for any hashtag that you enter on the site. The PDF is updated every few hours with all the new tweets using that hashtag. If you want to see an example, go to the site or download this sample PDF of all #sxsw tweets from March 8th. Our goal with SessionTweets is to give you an easy way to review the discussion around sessions whether you attended them or not.

We would appreciate any help you can provide entering hashtags to track. So if you go to a session and the hashtag is announced, please visit the site and enter it so we can begin tracking it. Better yet, if you are a speaker, enter your hashtag ahead of time so we can be sure to pull all the tweets related to your session.

Hashtags are moderated by us so that you don’t end up with a bunch of PDFs about #v!@gra. If you have ideas about how to make SessionTweets better, please email us or leave a comment.