HARROGATE TWITTER COMMUNITY TO BE BROUGHT TOGETHER AT ‘TWEET-UP’ EVENT
The power of social media will become clear this month as the vast online Harrogate Twitter community are brought together in real life at a mass get together – or ‘Tweet Up’ – at Pavilions of Harrogate on Wednesday 17th November 2010.
Twitter – one of the worlds fastest growing online social networks – is a ‘microblogging’ service, enabling its users to send and read other users’ messages called tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the user’s profile page.
The Harrogate Twitter community comprises hundreds if not thousands of local individuals, businesses, charities, and networking groups – and this is growing by the day! The Tweet Up event is a great way for those that have connected on Twitter to ‘put a face to the tweet’ and actually meet each other in the flesh.
The organiser of the tweet-up is marketing consultant & social media fanatic Rachel Auty (@marketerach). Rachel has sent some 3000+ tweets since becoming an active user of Twitter in early 2009. She has established many new friendships on Twitter, as well as using the platform to generate new business opportunities. Rachel is also co-founder of HarrogateBLaH (@HarrogateBLaH) – a women’s business group that relies upon its Facebook, Twitter & Linkedin accounts as a means of keeping in touch with & supporting its members and reaching out to the wider business community.
Rachel explains how the idea came about: “I thought a tweet-up could be good fun, and so I posted some initial tweets out to gauge interest. I couldn’t believe the response and so things progressed quickly from there.” Rachel even sought a venue for the Tweet Up via Twitter, and Pavilions of Harrogate kindly obliged in a reply tweet.
Rachel adds, “I am personally fascinated by Twitter; how it facilitates new networks & brings communities together. At the tweet-up people will be brought together that may never have met if it wasn’t for Twitter. Both individuals and organisations use it in so many different ways and for different reasons. It has helped me with my business and I now also use it as a primary source of recommendations, or just to ask a question – It’s great knowing that real people will respond, and now I can’t wait to meet some of them!”
The event will take place on Wednesday 17th November at Pavilions of Harrogate between 6-8pm. A cash bar will be available and nibbles will be provided, courtesy of Pavilions of Harrogate. Attendees will be asked to wear badges showing their Twitter names and will be encouraged to discuss a number of pre-set twitter-themed questions with fellow tweeters in attendance.
Anyone who wants to come along can send a tweet to @harrogatetweeps or for more information email Rachel at r.auty@fourfrontmarketing.co.uk.
