West Berkshire's top Twitters unite at 9th Newbury TweetUp
Virtual networks on social media are all very well; however it is always great to meet up in real life – or rather TweetUp when it comes to Twitter!
TweetUps have been around as long as Twitter and Newbury has been gathering Twitter folk from West Berkshire together since 2009 and last week saw the 9th Newbury TweetUp land at Chenz, a popular Chinese restaurant in Cheap Street, Newbury.
Who fluttered along to this most social of social media events? There were 18 people there – although virtually speaking more if you think some have more than one Twitter account! So in no particular order and every one of them worthy of following, there was:
Elly - @fairywishes , Ian - @multimedian / @Turnturtlemedia , Katherine - @Thesourceress , James – @jamesbmarshall , Leah - @leahdarby , Robin - @robindarby , Pete - @peacockpete , Sam & Melissa - @melissawright75 , Nigel - @Nigel_Morgan / @DailyPRTips / @DailyTwitTips / @MorganPR , Jules - @JulesVarnham , Debbie - @Debbiegreeneyes , Katy - @demerarabird , Adrian - @AdrianWest /@VirtualAstro , Chris - @_dibdib , Richard - @NewburySmiles / @RichardCharon Andrew - @MrApplePrint , John - @rutthenut
Veteran organiser Elly soon recognised that it would take more than 140 characters to work out the bill if everyone ordered off the menu and luckily Chenz offer an all you can eat menu (which a straw poll revealed was mostly considered a challenge) with a stonking 100 items to choose from for the modest sum of £13.95 (+VAT – but £16.74 doesn’t seem so snappy!). So with food on the way and alcohol flowing faster than the average home feed on Twitter, the 9th Newbury TweetUp was underway.
Informality is the name of the TweetUp game and the next few hours were spent chatting with old friends and new friends and actually relatively little about Twitter itself!
That said, those who dine together certainly Tweet together afterwards and as with every TweetUp, the friendships made offline invigorate the friendships online and there were plenty of relevant tweets in the days following.
Do visit the Newbury TweetUp website to keep track on forthcoming events and shout, or indeed Tweet, if you would like to come along next time!