I have no idea what prompted this tweet to justify his presence at this conference, but I'm guessing some of the Twitterati have their pitchforks out and smell

I have no idea what prompted this tweet to justify his presence at this conference, but I'm guessing some of the Twitterati have their pitchforks out and smell blood in the water. For anybody who cares about this sort of drama, I think it's worth giving him the benefit of the doubt and maybe it was just a poor judgement call to speak at this conference. That said, I think he's too smart to not have suspected what type of crowd attends something called "BasedCon".