Social Media Spin

I’m a rel­a­tively new Twit­ter user. I only started in Feb or March of this year, but over the months I have become a true Twitter-​​addict. Not so much in tweet­ing every­thing I’m doing, but mostly as a col­lab­o­ra­tion tool to see what cowork­ers and col­leages are doing.

I think what flipped the switch in my head from just using Twit­ter as a nice lit­tle haiku-​​esque micro blog­ging wid­get to full-​​blown addic­tion was when I saw the geo-​​local capa­bil­i­ties. I noticed them right away when I signed up for Twit­ter but how awe­some it is was brought home to me one day when a local guy started fol­low­ing me. I checked out his pro­file page and noticed that EVERYONE he was fol­low­ing at that time was from Utah. I checked out some of the pro­files of the peo­ple he fol­lowed, and saw very much the same thing. Why was there this inces­tu­ous lit­tle cir­cle of fol­low­ers all from the same state? I actu­ally never got the answer to that ques­tion, because the local guy who fol­lowed me asked me out to lunch to meet in per­son. I accepted and had my very first Tweetup within days after start­ing the ser­vice, met a nice guy via Twit­ter and decided that I’d like to meet more local Twit­ter users.

So yes­ter­day, we orga­nized the first group Tweetup with 3 or 4 local users. I actu­ally had a dozen agree to come but only the geeki­est ones actu­ally showed up. We had a post-​​Tweetup meetup at the Gal­li­van cen­ter and a cou­ple more Twit­ter users were there search­ing for us…but in the crowd, we never did actu­ally meet. But we had a blast. And we’re hop­ing to have a monthly Tweetup, so if you’d like to be involved in our next SLC Tweetup, send a tweet to ghen­nipher on Twit­ter. We’d love to have you.

Check out some shots from last nite:
Anti­spam @ Gal­li­van
New Twit­ter Bud­dies
Some of the Tweetup atten­dees (taranaki some­how didn’t get in the shot)