Exeter #TAGS Tweetup
By Paul D Smart on Nov 19, 2009 with Comments 4
This evening I went to the Exeter #TAGS Tweetup.
It was a great opportunity to talk with other tweeters/business owners and listen to how they are using Social Media to influence potential clients.
@ExeterCCM (John Harvey, Exeter City Manager – the actual city, not the soccer club), gave some good examples of how the use of Twitter has help to keep people updated on city events as well as be a point of direct contact for the public/other business owners.
@rokkster talked about how in using social media he kept it pretty personal with the occassional shunt towards business and gave some good advice. Be careful what you say it may just bite you.
I think he also said that once tweeted it can’t be retracted. This is true to a point I believe you *can* delete your tweets. Correct me if I am wrong.
The other speakers also had plenty of great things to say… for now though I’ll leave you with some noisy photos (sorry no flash, so high ISO)
Would like to say a quick thanks to @bluegrass_it (David Thomas), for putting it on his website and his notes on Twitter that ensured I found it and of course thanks to @scottgould (Scott Gould).. and yes Scott, I will happily talk at one of the following tweetups!
If you’d like a more indepth summary, check out the WNW Design Blog
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Hey Paul,
Thanks for being the first person to blog about the #tags event in Exeter. A great afternoon and looking forward to many more from here.
Al Banks
(aka @banksy6)
Hi, Paul.
I have to admit that when I first read about the Tweetup on your Twitter feed, I suspected it was going to be little more than a social gathering – people meeting up simply because they used Twitter. I had no idea it was going to be as “official” as it was.
It just goes to show that something considered to be little more than a passing fad by many people is actually not only incredibly useful but clearly also the way forward.
Great photos! Thanks for sharing, have linked at the bottom of my recap blog for the event.
In respect to deleting Tweets, it’s true that you can delete a Tweet, but it won’t disappear from the public timeline or search or hashtag lists, so it’s definitely still very public in all the ways that might count. Hopefully Twitter might remedy this some day!
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