November 15, 2008, Plaza Centro, Caguas, Puerto Rico. After two weeks and a half of intense organizing and gathering up the troops, the first Puerto Rican Twitter User’s Meet-up finally happen. Therefor we know call us Twittericans.
Me @Rmediavilla behind doing all the organizing with a little help from @Afreytes, we had about 15 to 18 Puerto Rican Twitter users confirm that they will attend the Meet-up. At that time I felt the group was a nice amount to start a meet-up. Must of us have never meet in person before, so I knew right from the beginning it will be an amazing experience. Everyone was excited and pumped for this history event, a gathering of all of these different Puerto Rican Twitter minds.
The day began, and the Puerto Rican’s on Twitter where all talking about the Meet-up, this thing became the talk of the night, Tweet coming and going about Puerto Rican Tweeting of where they are, Tweet: I’m stuck on traffic, Tweet: I got here first, I’m in-front of Basking Robins, Tweet: I’m running late but will be there soon. When I finally got there much to my surprise the turn out surpass the expected, in the end 27 Puerto Rican Twitter users turn up for the Meet-up, I mean it took about 6 tables to sit all of us together.
Me begin the organizer of this event, I took it upon myself to go up to everyone of the Puerto Rican Twitter users and with my trusty Flip Video Ultra in hand I conducted want everyone there call a “In your face” Interview, I have the videos on YouTube, they introduce them self, Twitter handle, real name, work or student, etc, etc, the usual stuff. Since the Tweetup was in a local mall Food Court, most of us got something to eat, I did well because I was hungry, We talk about everything, including Tech, duh, we talk about the economy, and about the places we work at, about what new gadgets to buy, we talk about Apple and the iPhone, and we also talk about @Katsushiro Asus EEE PC.
By now you have seen the Twittericans logo/sticker far to many times, we have @jmonterrey to thank for that, he made a bunch of Twittericans stickers for me to give out, I got one in front on my Black Intel MacBook. The most interesting thing of this gathering of Puerto Rican Twitter minds, what the simple fact that we never stop Twittering, even when the person you where Twittering was right beside you. @Arhkangel made it a habit to Qik everything also, so he Qik and Tweet at the same time.
I had fun, the meet-up was a blast, I felt proud my little event, I loved meeting all of my fellow Puerto Rican Twitter users, but it didn’t end there, like @ramcosca t-shirt says “eat, sleep, Tweet”.
We love you Twitter, and Thanks.
Links:
My Twittericans Tweetup Video’s @ YouTube.com.
My Twittericans Pictures @ my Flickr set.
Twitteros Boricuas se reunen @ PrimeraHora.com (local newspaper) Thanks to @josehernandezpr
¿Twitterican? @ web.me.com/jhudo Thanks to @bohique
Twittericans.com and Twittericans.net
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