Its nice that the chats can have different formats, I particularly like the one where the chat has a moderator and a few important guest speakers, that way you can also promote audience members at certain times to ask questions and so forth (At least I assume).

I also love the fact that you can archive chats. I haven’t used any of these features so its garnered my interest into using twitter for livechats.

A buddy of mine and I just released a first version of a site that allows you to have these Twitter chats without annoying your followers. The conversations are all around a Twitter hashtag and tweets with that same hashtag are visible alongside the conversation. We kind of look at Banterly as Twitter’s real time sister. (http://banter.ly)

Am I missing something? Why would people prefer to hold these conversations on Twitter instead of a tool that was built specifically for real time? Would love to hear your feedback. I’d love to give you a walk through of the site if wanted as well.

Hosts now have the ability to create a landing page that puts branding, instructions and even media around their chat. Just put your hashtag (without the #) after http://twebevent.com/ and it will walk you through the setup. Its completely free.

I co-founded #custserv in the last week of Dec 09 with @MarshaCollier. Here’s our landing page for it: http://custservdialogue.wordpress.com.

I registered it on April 12, 2010 on http://www.twapperkeeper.com/hashtag/custserv. Since that date, as of today, we’ve logged 43824 tweets. The analytics state that in the last 10,000 tweets on hashtag, there were slightly over 1600 participants.

I’ve also recently started #bakechat and #restobuild.