It’s on, baby. The quest to make Atlanta the most Twitter connected town on the map is in full swing after last night’s impressive two-Tweetup duel.
The Tweetup I organized, at Taco Mac Lindbergh, had a respectable 14 people in attendance. Not bad, considering I had no idea how many interested parties there would be when I started planning and, didn’t pick a venue until Monday. By complete and total coincidence, there was a second Tweetup/beer and pool bash going on at the same time, organized by @rustytanton and @shelbinator. The fact that Atlanta can support similtaneous Tweetups without exploding or leaving one Tweetup without any attendees is really impressive. In the end, I think the rivalry helped promote both events. It also led to some fun trash talking between the two groups.
We talked, we laughed, we did what the social web is meant to facilitate; socialize. Then the rivalry hit top gear. I was checking Twitter on my blackberry when I saw this tweet from @shelbinator. The gauntlet had been tossed down, the game was on, the Tweetups would be judged not on the quality of attendees, of conversation, of interconnection. Nay, the real Tweetup battle would play out in the most base rating of human attributes, boobs.
Rate, rank and evaluate in the comments. I think we clearly win but, you make the call. Public commentary, FTW!
Splinter Tweetup Boobs:
Our Tweetup Boobs:
Thanks to everyone who showed up, and to everyone who contacted me to say they’d make it to the next one. We’re definitely doing this again. Also, big thanks to Paul Stamatiou for taking pictures, since I was too lame to bring a decent camera.
Remember to pay your bar tab! @qthrul was nice enough to make it easy, so don’t forget to Paypal him your share of the damage.
12 responses so far ↓
1 Sean // Mar 29, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Gee I wonder to whom those belong . . . something about films and girls perhaps?
I think your group certainly takes the cake! Good show! I missed today’s Houston tweetup since it wasn’t nearly as organized as yours!
2 steelisreal // Mar 30, 2008 at 12:23 am
I really hope that something like this can get started in San Antonio, but from searches I have done it looks like no one here is really tweetering.
3 Grant Robertson // Mar 30, 2008 at 12:26 am
@steelisreal Start your own! I was amazed at how many Atlanta twitter peeps came out of the woodwork and started following me once I set this up. I really had no idea how many were out there. Before this, I think I knew of 5 or 6. Now I’ve got well over 40 Atlanta based followers.
4 Jeff Pabian // Mar 30, 2008 at 1:02 am
I had to laugh… I was digging in a box for something and pulled out a paystub from Soundwarehose. Nobody will know what that is these-a-days.
5 Christina Warren // Mar 30, 2008 at 1:09 am
I’m going to totally be lame and vote for my own boobs. Come on. Plus, you know our tweet-up kicked major ass!
6 Jay (Twitter @qthrul) // Mar 30, 2008 at 1:21 am
adds +1
7 Rusty // Mar 30, 2008 at 1:52 am
If there were people sober enough to take good photos and send coherent Tweets at this one, then I’m going to have to go with the splinter faction. We were so drunk we didn’t even get around to playing pool.
8 Grant Robertson // Mar 30, 2008 at 2:00 am
@rusty Point taken, but I thought we were judging Tweetup quality on boobs? Don’t look at me, @shelbinator started it.
9 Grant Robertson // Mar 30, 2008 at 2:32 am
@Jeff Damn, you _are_ a packrat. That’s totally amazing.
10 Sara // Mar 30, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Wow, we were really drunk if we didn’t realize the boobs didn’t even show up in our pic.
(Those are mine, btw.)
11 Grant Robertson // Mar 31, 2008 at 9:40 am
@sara On my phone, it took us several minutes of passing the picture around to figure out what we were looking at. I have to hand it to the Splinter Tweetup, the trash talking was brilliant. Let’s do it again soon?
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