Using twitter to comment on, or summarize an event, while it is ongoing. By restating what a speaker has said, posting quotes, or adding original reflections, the 'twitcaster' plays a similar role to a sports commentator.
Twitcasting provides an opportunity for attendants of an event to communicate with each other and share reactions about a speaker, while the presentation is ongoing.
The speaker encouraged 'twitcasting' by providing the hastag of the conference before getting started.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)