Comments on: PRSA’s 1st Tweet-up at Night

By: Amanda Blum

Amanda Blum — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:37:48 +0000

tylers right (stepping aside for lightening strike). not sure scott monty’s opinion is entirely that valid here.

meetups, tweetups, etc are suppossed to be an extension of the free platforms that bring them about. i think many organizations and companies are trying to seize this concept as a way of showing they’re down w the lingo.

really, there is nothing about this event different from all other PRSA events. its not a tweetup, its a PRSA cocktail hour, just like all other PRSA cocktail hours.

Now, if PRSA REALLY got social media, they would hold an ACTUAL tweetup, make it free, publicize it via twitter and enjoy the purpose of a tweetup, which is to bring in new people you’d otherwise not have at the event. Maybe those people decide they really like PRSA, and pay to attend the next non tweetup.

and yeah. What Pat said.

By: Charlotte Shaff

Charlotte Shaff — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:03:13 +0000

I wasn’t aware of a rule book on the use of “Tweet Up”.
If you’d like to attend, we’d love to have you come to the event.

I looked at Mr. Ghimire’s blog post and found this comment.

“Comment by Scott Monty (1 comments.) on August 6, 2009 @ 11:53 am”
I’m going to chime in here for two reasons:
1) My name was already invoked above (by Benn)
2) I coined the term “tweetup,” so I think I should have some say as to how it’s being used. See http://www.wordspy.com/words/tweetup.asp for the details.
Personally, I don’t care if a tweetup is free or includes a cover charge. The point of a tweetup is it’s a face-to-face meeting of two or more people who use Twitter. Period.”

By: Pat Elliott

Pat Elliott — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:54:08 +0000

Not a Tweet-Up if you’re charging. It is bad PR though.

By: Champ Superstar

Champ Superstar — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:08:51 +0000

Charging for your PR event is one thing, but using the term “tweet-up” and still charging means your understanding of social media is fairly limited or just plain wrong. Use of the term is misleading and awkward.

A more appropriate use of Twitter for this event would be to create a hashtag and append it to your tweets. I would think as a PR firm you would have an expert on hand who would recognize this.

By: Shailesh Ghimire

Shailesh Ghimire — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:07:43 +0000

How is this a Tweetup?

By: If You Charge For It, It Ain’t a Tweet-up!

If You Charge For It, It Ain’t a Tweet-up! — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:02:20 +0000

[...] because the Phoenix PRSA is organizing a meeting of its members. Its charging members to attend and calling it a Tweet-up. Now since when did Tweet-up’s get hijacked like this? Well, for one thing, let me be clear, a [...]

By: Melissa Rzeppa

Melissa Rzeppa — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:05:57 +0000

Sounds great, I’ll definitely be there

By: Mike Shaldjian

Mike Shaldjian — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:59:23 +0000

Wish I could be there, but will be in Coronado. I’m sure it will be a fabulous event! I’ll be looking for tweets that evening from everyone there.