The Milwaukee Tweet Up is scheduled for less than an hour away at the Iron Horse Hotel. They are a sponsor as well as Identify Yourself, a branding and image releations LLC ran by two lovely young women I had the opportunity to meet over coffee. It was an interesting meeting as they were very “gung-ho” about a big event driven “tweet-up,” yet hadn’t actually been to one themselves. I had, JSOnline, Twestival, which I hosted, Spreenkler crowd events and a few others. I knew them all to be small informal gatherings. I think it will be nice to see what unfolds, but I do have few thoughts:
What I have seen so far is a corporate approach for better or worse that has included press releases, data collection, personal invites, some of which include the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks and Fox News 6 affilliate here in Milwaukee.
Is this a good thing for Twitter? I’m not sure. iDo know that it is a social tool. iDo know that we recieved our company analytics today and Twitter was even higher than our anchor site for traffic distribution to our satirical content and little local news stories.
In the last month I’ve been asked 5 times to speak on social media, yet only had the opportunity to do so once. I wonder if iWil
l be saying any words about Twitter tonight as I did hep with some of the PR by “retweeting” and setting up a group for Milwaukee, called the Milwaukee Meetup.com Tweet Up Group.
Some questions i’d like to answer by attending this event are: Will the local Twitter elite be there? How will thy respond? How much of this is a PR machine for the sponsors and really what else is there? I’m not sure. I hope that some of this is headed for a good cause or that it isn’t a big commercial for a few media outlets to commandendere part of our antartic ice shelf. We are the 48th biggest Twitter community in the world btw. 
