I don't know about other twitter meets but this one was exactly in the spirit of twitter. Short. Everybody had very little to say. Most had nothing to say. I mostly browsed and checked my mails on whatever little connectivity I could get. We had this meet as a part of barcamp bangalore 6. We circulated a nice chart and wrote our 'twitter handles' (someone called our twitter ids 'handles', everybody kept using the same term). We spent a few minutes talking about each others' 'handles'. The official bcb6 twitter account has all these ids written. We started discussing about other twitter meets and what people did there (much to our disappointment nobody knew exactly). We also spent a minute or two on how one guy wanted to sell his twitter account. Some nerds started talking about twitter API and stuff which was like Greek to most others. People also shouted some interesting questions like what do you use twitter for but it was too interesting to hold anyone's attention. We also discussed IPL, Formula 1, a major software firm and how some folks get lost finding Church Street standing on MG Road. I am sure if we had stayed for a few more minutes, we would have also discussed if Sachin will play the opening game, has Tulsi Veerani put on some weight, how to make banana vodka and other such related topics.
We also pulled in a couple of folks who did not know twitter and my friend Jerry took the initiative of explaining to them, what it was. I wanted to write an email to twitter management telling them about this (and why they should get people like Jerry eliminated) because now I can bet Sanath Jayasuriya's forearm they will never join twitter.
Someone also suggested that we introduce ourselves in 140 characters or less but again it was too interesting to hold anyone's attention so we moved on to other stuff. But one thing came out of the meet, we all saw each other and realized how interesting we all were really ;) (no pun intended).
Back to twitter, that is much better you know.
1 Bahs !:
Got back to your blog after a looooooooooong time and just found out that everything sounds greek to me! Can't believe that I have become so much technologically challenged in last 1 year!!
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