Hello tweeters! Thanks to those who attended today’s very late notice ATUB at the Earl of Leicester. We’ll have to come back here on a properly organised day, Sundays look like the best time to visit – with free use of the pool table!

Just a note to say that July’s ATUB will be held a week early on the weekend of the 16th-18th. There’s a poll in the sidebar for you to vote on your preferred day and time of the weekend, though we expect it to be on the Saturday evening.

More details in a week or so!

With many thanks to a ATUB first timer who put the event together, @crazyspeak! It has been a long time since a proper meetup and the Ed Castle seems to be our favourite spot. Staking out the balcony, ATUB set themselves up for a night in to catch up with twitter friends and to put other names to faces.

Here’s a couple of photos of the event:

Easily the highlight of the night.. Bacon items!

Thanks @Tarale for her photos – she always remembers to bring a camera!

We’ve also done a slight upgrade to the website, and will be introducing a few more people to help with the twitter rounds – if you would like to help let us know by sending a mention to @ATUB. Also, have a look at our June meetup (if it’s not too late by the time you read this!)

This is the first of many features on all of our ATUB friends! We put the word out through the Twitter account to ask who would be interested in an interview style feature on themselves and this is the first one!

What’s your name and Twitter username?
Kara (@karawr)

How long have you been on Twitter?
Since October 18th, 2007.

What do you study / What do you do for work?
I’m a full-time design student at UniSA and I also work part-time at JB Hi-Fi.

Name something you’re passionate about!
DESIGN! I pretty much live and breathe it. I’m always looking for inspiration. I’m also pretty passionate about a certain TV show (see below!).

What’s one movie/TV show/band/singer/song/anything you can’t stop talking about and how good is it?
I really can’t get enough of The Mighty Boosh or anything Boosh-related, I think it’s hilarious! There was a good 6 months where I had to get my daily fix, but I’ve toned it down a bit since then… I still get really excited about it though, haha.

Who was the first person you met from Twitter?
Besides the people I know already, probably @megainintime and @bridgetmilson… I met them through @nicolepenney. I’ve also seen @monnie, @mpurse and @omegatron at my work a couple of times but haven’t had the chance to meet them properly!

Describe yourself in 140 characters!
Im 20 years old & really into design. I’m a fake ranga & quite tall for a female. I don’t get much free time but still manage to Tweet 24/7

If you’d like to be featured, let us know by sending a reply to @ATUB!

The February meet was a success! We had 25 attendees who spent a relaxing Sunday afternoon at The Highway. With many thanks to Cupcake Treats (@monnie) for bringing along some cupcakes for us all to enjoy!

Another of our attendees has made a pretty neat collection video of all the photos that were taken by @monnie and @aliyaki to introduce everyone that was there – if you’re thinking about coming along don’t be afraid, we’d all love to meet you!

Head over to YouTube for @hugepedlar‘s ATUB video!

Stay tuned as information on March’s meet will be available through our Twitter account and a poll here very very soon.

As you may know, the Clipsal 500 is coming to Adelaide from March 11-14. For some of us, this means a weekend out on the track, but for most this means road closures and a lot of headaches. Here’s a list of all the dates and times of the road closures. This affects mostly the East and South East ends of Adelaide, and as in previous years, causes gridlocks during peak hour. Plan ahead for the coming fortnight!

Road Closures

DEQUETTEVILLE TCE - 6am Saturday 6 March – 5pm Monday 15 March from Britannia roundabout to Bartels Rd

WAKEFIELD RD - 6am Saturday 6 March – 1pm Wednesday 17 March from Britannia roundabout to Hutt St

BARTELS RD - 10am Monday 8 March – 5pm Monday 15 March from Dequetteville Tce to Hutt St

HUTT ST - 10am Monday 8 March – 5pm Monday 15 March from Wakefield St to Pirie St

EAST TCE - 6am Saturday 6 March – 1pm Wednesday 17 March from Bartels Rd to Wakefield Rd

FLINDERS ST - 6am Saturday 6 March – 1pm Wednesday 17 March between East Tce and Hutt St

KENT TOWN - Angas St, Little Angas St, Wakefield St and Little Wakefield St closed at Dequetteville Tce end from Friday 19 February. (Always open at Fullarton Road end) Flinders St, Kent Town closed at Dequetteville Tce from 10am Monday 8 March – 5pm Monday 15 March

RUNDLE RD always open

FULLARTON RD always open

I’ve had a couple of people ask me lately what the origins of the name “ATUB” are. Once people actually understood that ATUB = Adelaide Twitter Meetups, they were all trying to figure out what the U and B stood for. Well, it stands for Adelaide Twitter Underground Brigade. Although we’re not so underground anymore, the name has stuck (because the rest of Australia still use it)!

Back in 2007 when I first joined Twitter, it was a dark empty room. When you first join, it is quiet. I didn’t know anyone else using the service so I left for a few months and came back to meet a couple of other Adelaide people and new interstate friends. Thanks to a lot of them, I realised how valuable the service was.

Sydney and Melbourne already had very well established Twitter meetups, and formed their names based around the fact that Twitter was still a mostly unknown world. Facebook was still developing and poaching MySpace users at this time, so Twitter was left to grow on its own.

I attended my first Twitter “meetup” in early 2008, when I met up with a friend (who no longer lives in Adelaide). At this stage, not very many people were keen to meetup or were busy. Eventually we met others, and in late 2008 after a brief break from Twitter myself, the media had done the hyping Twitter needed to become more of a social meetup network.

I put faces to names for the first time in December 2008 when I held a BarCamp Adelaide Planning Meeting and the Twitter meets followed regularly from here. They used to be every Friday night, but in recent months after a few breaks and demand for different days increased, we’ve polled our attendees instead. That’s how we came to the Sunday afternoon conclusion, as well as the venue – The Highway.

We also have another Twitter account which mirrors the ATUB tweets called @AdelaideTweetup where we hope the name itself will be enough to attract more attendees (as it’s very self explanatory).

Hopefully we’ll see you on Sunday afternoon!

@monnie

Thanks to everyone who came along to the very relaxing January meet, held at the Ed Castle! It was great to see some new faces, and the regular ones, and have a quiet drink in the beer garden on a lovely summers day.

It’s about that time again for another one, and after your votes on which day of the week you want ATUB and the venue, here’s the official details:

February Adelaide Twitter Meet
Sunday February 28th from 2pm
The Highway Hotel (290 Anzac Hwy)

The venue is here:

Thanks to Cupcake Treats, every attendee will receive a free cupcake!

If you like to RSVP on Facebook to keep track of your events, here is the event invitation. You can always keep up with the latest details at the ATUB account, and we’ll see you on Sunday for a quiet afternoon at the Highway!

Hi Adelaide Tweeters!

I’m @monnie and I help to maintain this website and ATUB with @Tarale. This is the new look website (amazing what a little theme change can do)!

We organise Adelaide Twitter meets during the last weekend of every month. In 2010, we’ve started asking you what day you want ATUB, and where you’d like it held.

We’d ideally like to start featuring local tweeters and events here on this website – not just twitter meets of course! Do you have something you can offer to other tweeters maybe, or an event you’re organising? We’d also love to review your website/event/anything – and let other Adelaide Tweeters know about it! It’s all about sharing information, ideas and deals between us.

If you’d like to write for Adelaide Tweeters or have a suggestion about what we should post, please let us know! Photos, events, news snippets, interviews, spotlights – anything and everything. We’d also love to hear about your experiences at the Adelaide Fringe and what the best non-sold out shows are!

Hi Adelaide Tweeters!

NEXT ATUB:

Sunday January 31, 2010

2pm – 6pm

The Beer Garden of The Ed Castle (Currie Street, Adelaide)

Visit http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=264909408346 for more info and to RSVP, or @ ATUB to let us know you’re attending.

Hi Adelaide Tweeters!

We are fast approaching the end of 2009 and it is time for another ATUB meet… This one is most probably the last official one for the year, so if you can come along and finally put names to faces, do it! We’d love to have you come along.

The last ATUB meet in September took up almost the whole upstairs room in the Pancake Kitchen and had 30 attendees!

At this moment the event location is to be confirmed. Somewhere in or near the immediate vicinity of the CBD is preferable and accessible for seating, numbers (30-40 people), aircon (possibly) and decent pricing for food/drinks.

Hopefully we’ll get to see you all there!

@monnie
on behalf of @ATUB

If you’d like to RSVP to this ATUB event, here’s the Facebook Invitation.