Attendees counting on Twitter to foster chance meetings, impromptu 'tweet-ups' and an almost overwhelming number of discussions, demos, presentations, and a wild and raucous nightlife that is a huge part of the SXSW experience.
By one attendee's count, Ford has done some $200 million in sales thanks to hand-shakes made at past events.
Conference attendees alone counted to more than 70,000 with more than 2,000 conference sessions being held for them to enjoy.
For those of you going to Le Web 3 (30 UK attendees and counting) Loic has just setup a public Google group LeWeb3 for any participant or person interested in the conference to have conversations around it.
"Several submissions also expressed concern about some counting agents and other attendees talking to count staff in Bengali, which meant that other observers could not understand what had been said," the report said.
Most of the difference between our low and high count of attendees at the March for Our Lives results from disparities in counting how many people were at the main march in Washington.
Every hour, all attendees are invited to count down from 10 and shout the name of Krishna.
While the most optimistic organizers of the march estimated as many as 2,000 attendees, the Democratic National Committee counted only 300.
The haphazard nature of this was revealed when the results took over four hours to count because many attendees cast more than 26 votes on their ballot.
In February a rally attracted thousands of protesters – whether you believe the organisers' estimate of 15,000 attendees or the police's count of 5,000 – and the rallying cry of "Keep Sydney Open" has become a defining civil liberties issue for a generation of Sydneysiders.
