Since we have some out of town Twitterers in Belgrade this week, we decided to get schedule another quick Belgrade TweetUp for this coming Saturday, November 28th at our now regular venue. This evening, somewhere on the #exYU (hashtag I and others now commonly use for content on Twitter pertaining to or of interest to the former Yugoslav region) timeline, I noticed Miloš Petrović‘s tweet announcing that he would be attending a TweetUp in Osijek, Croatia scheduled for the same day and time. I thought it would be fun to check out the influence and agility of Twitter in real life and asked my fellow #exYu Twitterers if they thought more of these TweetUps could be scheduled for the same date and time in other cities in the region. As Twitter usually goes, the response was pretty quick. So far there’s a TweetUp scheduled for Novi Sad, #TweetUpNS and Veliko Gradište, #TweetUpVG, and I’m hoping more are in the works.
Although this is all short notice and just for fun, the power and velocity of Twitter as a communication tools doesn’t cease to amaze me. This is still all small time, but if we can get together some 100 people in several cities of a region that was at war just a little over a decade ago, I wonder how this would work in other practical situations, like evacuations, natural disasters and… well, protests. We seems to have had quite a few of those in the region over the years. There’s a little food for thought to keep the powers to be busy for a while (IF they actually knew what Twitter is). In the meantime, you know where to find me on Saturday, November 28th, from 5 pm to 8 pm. If you’re in Belgrade, you’re most welcome to join us. Don’t worry if you’re not on Twitter yet. We’ll get you hooked in no time.
Oh, and here’s a funfact that Andrej Ivaničević from Croatia noticed – November 29th, the day after these simulatneous TweetUps that we’re trying to get together, is the day when, in 1943, the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia, established and signed the foundations for “the second”, post WWII Yugoslavia. The former Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia was officially proclaimed on the same date in 1945. The Republic Day was celebrated as the biggest national holiday from 1945 untill 1990. How’s that for a coincidence? You gotta love history!
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So conclusion is we’re all Yugonostalgic?
What a coincidence & what a fun! Let’s work next time on simultaneous Tweetups in all major cities of ExYu
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To be honest, I’m not a Yugonostalgic, but I do feel at home almost anywhere in the region.
Either way, I find this is a fun little experiment and a doorway to several new possibilities for cultural (and economic, while we’re there) cooperation.
That would be nice. I see live feeds, timelines and v-casts already.