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The Chennai Twitter Meetup
on 22/09/2008 - like it?

Picture courtesy Karthik

Well the third Chennai twitter meetup was held yesterday – and like the second tweetup, this one too was decided in a hurry. UNLIKE the last tweetup, we had more people – 7 people all in all including me, The ones that attended were

• Ashish (@ashishmohta)
• Balaji Sowmyanarayan(@labsji)
• Gayathri (@gbot)
• Karthik(@karthiksn)
• Narayanan(@narayananh)
• Palaniappam (@palam)

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Tags: Chennai, Life, meetup, tweetup, twitter

Chennai Twitter Meetup [Tweetup]
on 30/07/2008 - like it?

It seems with twitter everything happens instantaneously. You get instant feedback, instant replies, instant responses. And the next Chennai twitter meet was decided instantaneously.

I was talking to Ashwin aka cruisemaniac regarding his day day in Italy, and he asked if I’m in Chennai. I responded in positive, and he told me he’ll be landing here and will be here till Saturday and bam! Next thing we know we decided to meetup this Saturday, and extend the invitation to fellow Chennai twitter users.

Here’s the details:

Date: Saturday, August 2nd 2008. Time: Around 13:00-13:30

Venue: Not decided yet, most probably Resto Bronx bar at Hotel Manhattan, Santhome.

I’m open to any other suggestions.

If you’re interested in coming, drop a comment or send me a @reply on twitter. Hope to see you there!

Tags: Chennai, meetup, tweetup, twitter

Chennai Twitter Meetup
on 08/03/2008 - like it?

Well, Kiruba decided to organise a Chennai Twitter Meetup. As the Wiki states,

It’s really an excuse to have an informal get-together and some fun. A reason for us to get away from keyboards and make new friends in meatspace.

We go dutch. Get your wallet along!

Need directions? Call Kiruba at 98415 97744

Help tweet the news or slap the badge on your blog.

If you’re a twitterer in Chennai and would like to be part of the meetup then head over to the Tweetup Wiki and fill in the details. As much as I’d like to attend the tweetup(my first ever, I might add)  I will be at home in Mangalore and hence won’t be ableto attend tweetup. Hope the guys would tweet about it.

Cheers guys and have a good time

Tags: Chennai, Life, tweetup, twitter

I’m a twitter-bug now
on 15/01/2008 - like it?

Preshit had introduced me to twitter a while ago, but I’d never bothered to check it(don’t ask me why). Seeing twitter updates on Preshit’s blog, I thought I’d give it a try. After trying it out, I’m cursong myself — for not having tried it earlier!

In case you guys are wondering, twitter uses the concept of microblogging, where you send short updates of upto 140 characters(or “tweets”) to Twitter’s website, via SMS, using IM(only Jabber-based protocols like GTalk are supported at the moment). The updates are displayed instantly.
Believe me, you you start using it, you’ll get hooked on to it immediately. And you dont even have to logon to their site, you can update the status using Snitter (which uses Adobe’s AIR technology). FireFox users can also use the TwitterFox add-on. There’s even a KDETwitter plasmoid for those using KDE4.0 Although I’ve been using only for the past couple of days, I admit, I’m a twitterbug now and totally hooked onto twitter–keep updating status via GTalk, Snitter, KDETwitter, and even using my Cell Phone(though not through SMS as of yet), via GPRS. Highly recommend you guys to try it out! You’ll like it!

Tags: blogging, internet, twitter