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.
