Tweetup | theKitch

Made it out to the first triangletweetup of 2009 last night. So many faces I haven’t seen in such a long time!

Started out with a few “pre-game” beers over at the fabulous new Tobacco Road, aka TR. Made it over to edge office just in time for @DiMambro’s pitch about getting a real coworking space set up in Downtown Raleigh. All the best to him on this venture, I think it would be awesome. I’d totally be down for getting some space one day a week in order to get out of the office once in a while. Make it happen!

The list of tweeple I haven’t seen face to face in a while was staggering. Great to see you @therab @mattrmiller @wiggitywack @dgtlpapercuts @ryanirelan @southpaw20 @ladyishmael @ginnyskal @waynesutton @dimambro @dtraleigh @abbyladybug @ayeshamus @jefftippet @roninvision @prachig @eronel @nematome @jreesnc @hughlh @ocell. I know I ran into others and met some new people as well. If you read this and I met you for the first time please let me know and I’ll add ya!

Also enjoyed the after party back over at TR with everyone that made it out.

Finally, I feel pretty good about the fact that I’m blogging and I don’t even have a photo! Freedom! I do have a ton of pics from the evening, just haven’t gotten them off the camera yet. I’ll be sure to post a few soon.

For those of you not involved with twitter this post will likely be as meaningless of most of the posts that I have made lately. Twitter is topical for me at the moment and thus brings thoughts and words to mind.

Today I passed 100 followers and am therefore following nearly 100 people as well. I took a look at my twitterholic and in the past 40 days or so I’ve gone from 15 tweeple and about 200 updates to 100 tweeple and 750 updates. In the grand scheme of things this is pretty minimal in the twitter world. That said, for me it’s been a continuous stream of change in how I react to twitter. @dtraleigh said it best today with:

Twitter is now like trying to talk to your friends at the loudest club and the 10 foot loudspeaker is next to your head.

Net result, it’s nearly impossible to keep track of what is going on with everyone on twitter. I’ve been reduced to just taking a glance occasionally and checking replies to me. There really isn’t any other way to keep track of the whole thing. I dread the day that I might have one thousand people to follow or vice-versa. Total overload.

The other big “news” at twitter this week was that it’s been dying a slow death on an almost daily basis. I got a total kick out of this video blog post from Loren Feldman of 1938 media. The quickie summary is that basically most people on twitter are bored proffesionals starved for attention and blog hits. This is why we tolerate this mess.

The most interesting thing to happen in the twitterverse, at least locally, is triangletweetup. This will be my first tweetup of any significant numbers. Definitely looking forward to the presentations and activities. Since twitter is more social than network for me, the best part will just be to put names and faces with twitternames. Should be good times to be had by all.