Mrunmaiy@Opera

Thanks to MH31 and the enthusiastic bunch of organizers who put together the 1st Tweet-up in Nagpur.




I was not sure what to expect from this meetup, was just following a couple of them before meeting. My good friend from Shivaji Abhijeet Deshpande (who also works with Tvider btw) agreed to come along n give me company.

We all began with individual introductions and it was good to know that there was a mix of people from diverse backgrounds. While everyone spoke abt themselves and why they r on twitter - none of us were expecting this basic concept to lead into a hot debate topic. While one guy felt "no. of followers on twt = no. of fans on fb" - he was immediately greeted with reactions from passionate users on the lines of how-on-earth-can-u-think-like-this!!!

Well, even I could not resist when someone commented on Indian publications' style of reporting tech stories. As someone who religiously tracks most tech stories in India (& even the tech shows on TV) it saddened me to hear unkind comments such as 'breaking stories late' and 'doing a copy paste'.

Lots of other topics happened.... yes we discussed 'Browsers' too

And how can I miss the young 'MAD' girls - they volunteer with Make a Difference Organization and gave us a quick intro abt what they do, teaching English to the unprivileged students and their upcoming volunteer recruitment initiative. I hope the tweeps who attended this will be able to raise some awareness about the MAD cause and increase volunteers too.

Finally there was coffee... signing messages... photographs aaaannndddd 'The Talented Tweeps' - who did not hesitate to live-the-moment

The highlight performances were clearly from the 3 stars below:
@sukhada1989 mesmerized us with her song "Nayi nahi yeh baaten" n got every1 in the groove
@rohneet mimicked commentators and famous cricket players from India & Pakistan
and
@tusharvjoshi recited a hilarious Marathi poem - See his video here - and his pic here


To follow updates on the tweet-up - search for #NGPmeet

Read the MH31 blog here - http://mh-31.com/nagpur/nagpur-people/nagpur-twitter/338-nagpur-twitter-meet-may-2010

Pics here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/akkib/sets/72157623969476442/

To sum it up in brief - i'd say "It began with sum hot debates n ended up with Nagpur Idol. wit coffee n getting 2 know ppl in between #superfun"

Cheers
@mrunmaiy