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Tweetup: Meeting the people behind the tweets
By cjcastillo in Digital Babble
August 31, 2009

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Twitter. By now many of us are familiar with the micro-blogging, 140 characters or less, social media site that you either love, hate or just don't get.

Well on Friday a group of Twitter users joined together for one of the first "tweetups" in Victoria. We all met at the Hardback Cafe. Many thanks to Hastings and the staff at the Hardback for letting us meet there.

A tweetup is a meeting of Twitter users. Tweetups are pretty common in larger cities, so I was curious as to how many would show up to one in Victoria. I figured it would be me, my cat Mango, and whoever else I could drag over from the book section in Hastings.

Contrary to popular belief, a tweetup is not a meeting where everyone is just sitting behind their laptops,notebooks, mobile phones, etc., tweeting to each other, avoiding eye contact and not talking. Don't get me wrong, some tweeting is involved, but usually it's limited to people tweeting photos of said tweetup.

Well to my pleasant surprise, we had about 25 people attend, which is not too shabby for the size of this town.

The purpose of a tweetup, is to have a chance to meet with other users on Twitter, to actually meet face to face and communicate in person. From what I saw, it seemed everyone had a good time talking and visiting with each other.

Photos from Friday's tweetup:

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I'm posting more photos here on the Victoria Tweetup blog I set up on Posterous.com.

If you were at the tweetup, you can also send in your pics to the blog. Email your photos to post@vtxup.posterous.com. The subject line of the email will be the heading of the photo, and you can include a text description in the body of the message. Once your photo is approved it will appear on this site.

I'm in the process of organizing another tweetup in the future, hope to see you there!

Follow me on Twitter: @cjcastillo

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  • cjcastillo cjcastillo Report a ViolationReport a Violation
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    Bea - Thanks for attending, it was great meeting you in person!

    chattykat - Hope you can make the next one, I'll let you know the time and place as soon as it's all organized.

    September 4, 2009 at 2:06 p.m.

  • chattykat chattykat Report a ViolationReport a Violation
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    I wish I could have made it (out of town)--looking forward to the next one! :)

    September 4, 2009 at 12:22 a.m.

  • BeaAmaya BeaAmaya Report a ViolationReport a Violation
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    I think that too often we spend our lives looking for "like-minded" people to interact with. In dating, at school, at social events, etc., it seems we spend our time looking for others who are "like us". For me, at least, the tweetup was different. I asked [and was met with] questions like, "who are you?", "what do you do?", "who do you follow?", "who follows you?", "what are you interested in?" and more. And interestingly, the best responses were often the ones that were so very different from my own. Thanks so much for hosting this event...it was a great deal of fun! @beaamaya

    September 1, 2009 at 5:17 p.m.