Pune sees Largest Twitter Meet in India
@bhavis I wanted to meet my followers and the ones I follow personally because they’ve helped me a lot. 60+ Twitter users had gotten together to network, to throw ideas at each other and have fun (including the advanced Valentine’s Day menu) at Café Coffee Day on Fergusson Road. With people joining the community from [...]
Saiyona Ghosh
08.02.2009
Sci-Tech
@bhavis I wanted to meet my followers and the ones I follow personally because they’ve helped me a lot.
60+ Twitter users had gotten together to network, to throw ideas at each other and have fun (including the advanced Valentine’s Day menu) at Café Coffee Day on Fergusson Road. With people joining the community from Mumbai, Nasik and surprisingly Chennai, twitter finally showed its true colors- networking.
Sessions by celebrity tweeters (not Pg3, but ones which are followed dearly) included usage of applications like TweetDeck by Navin Kabra (PuneTech), separation of ID’s for casual and committed tweeting by Dhananjay Nene and the use for getting business by Rohan Dighe (Social Web Factory).
Anupam Saraph spoke about “Tweeting for Pune”. Twitter updates have already been implemented for the Pune Traffic, which have been integrated into the PuneWiki. SadakMap has recently launched a twitter layer for its map-based application so that people can geo-tag their tweets. This shall soon be used to aggregate data to be presented to the PMC for building better infrastructure around the city. Sahil Khan announced the launch of GreenPune.org, a social initiative by TheTossedSalad.com and its presence on twitter, where it shall cover the steps the government, corporate and individuals are taking to the city greener and to compare and implement green activities happening in other cities.
Another suggestion made was to provide information regarding bus routes. Imagine just sending a tweet to a particular user and getting a reply back in the form of bus number, timing and bus route.
Ashish Mohta had come all the way from Chennai especially for the event. He suggested that all the tweetups around Indian should come together on one site and gather all the information, ideas and thoughts.
Organizers Bhavya, Amit, Aman and Vishal who had started planning the event from last month’s WAT Blog Wednesday, seemed pretty happy about the turnout as they wanted to make this the largest twitter meet after Delhi’s turnout of only 25 people.
Saiyona Ghosh
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pune mirror coverage was horrible. decided at PHP camp? and PHP=personal home page??? wtf?
Why did Pune Mirror come and leave even before half the people had come down?
Pune totally rocks !! I have lost faith on the print media…
@rohan that’s why thr is TTS to the rescue
online media rocks
Good coverage!
Much important news and aspects covered!
Pune Mirror is horrible!
ugh!! how can someone think PHP=personal home page and then say more than thousand tweeple in Pune!
All events which are not related to PHP .. pune mirror always TAGs it with PHP ..WTF
They should think and write …
Good write-up
Thats a gud coverage of news then media
It was gr8 event
good coverage TTS, had a good lough in the morning with Pune Mirror article…
i think we need an article now from Times explaining what PHP is…
The meetup was great… I dont know about the pune mirror thing as i came in at 7:30 and left at 8:15…
had a test at 8 am next morning… lookin forward to next one…
hey the twitup was rockin and it was great to see twitters come together
lookin fwd for few such more meets.
Walked in an hour late expecting the meetup to have wound down – but was pleasantly surprised when it went on for another 2 hours. Good show Pune !!!
i think v need elaboration upon tweeter people..
atleast for first timers..!
Nice to have media coverage !!!
Pune ROCKS