as we type this, the SAPPHIRE 09 conference is underway in orlando, florida.

SAPPHIRE is convened for discussions of all things to do with SAP, the industry leading Enterprise Resource Planning tool.

tonight don henley will entertain the attendees, but today it's all about SOA and Integration Best Practice Cases and Data Warehousing Architectures.

the conference spent the morning trending on twitter's live conversation watcher at twitter.com

the following diagram depicts the connections between 30 randomly selected twitter chatters who sent tweets containing the text [#sapphire09], between 9:49 AM EST and 10:46 AM EST on wed. may 13, 2009.

the diagram depicts a significant number of users who have few friends and followers, but who are themselves connected to users who have large numbers of followers and friends.

this image was generated with the tweeterbrowser.