Twunch

Twunch: Lunch – twitter style; loosely organized open invitation lunch meeting among twitter friends

Source: Twictionary

On December 29, 2007, I joined Twitter. At the time, I was following 2 people. As of tonite, I’m following 106 people. Up until December of last year, I didn’t know a single person that I followed on Twitter in real life. Now I know quite a few (I work with most of those). Today I added more to that list.

A co-worker of mine (Melanie, a.k.a. @AmazonGrace) organized a lunch Tweet-Up for today. I believe there were about 20 of us there. I ended up sitting near my co-workers, for the most part. But I did meet some of the other Fargo tweeps. I hope we do it again soon. I think we should do it once a month. I’ll just have to wait and see what everyone else wants to do. If we do do it again, I need to mingle more.

I think it would be fun to get together for a nite on the town too. I tried to organize that a couple weeks ago, but I’m a poor organizer of social events I guess (could that be because I’m naturally shy?). I only ended up meeting @epizoic and @kalyke that nite. But then again, all I did was post a few tweets about going up and possibly meeting somewhere.

And to think, there was a time where I said that I wanted to live in a more high tech town. I guess Fargo is more techie than I thought. I’m now following a lot more local people than I even knew were on Twitter. And I know that there are more that I’m not following … yet.