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

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

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!

We’d like some regular writers to help with planning the ATUB (Adelaide Tweeters) meets, and to post meetup reviews and wrapups! We’re also after some people to take photos of each event.

If you are interested in becoming a contributor we’d love to hear from you – email us! twitter at adelaidetweeters dot com with your Twitter details and we’ll set up your writing access! Please note we are unable to give any monetary compensation for any work, this is all strictly volunteer because you love ATUB.