This blog post is contributed by Vaijayanthi KM (VJ), Regional Coordinator, India – Just a year and half back, Twitter was more about passing your time reading tweets and having a ‘public chat’ with friends and strangers alike than anything else. Whoever would have thought it would scale to the level it is today or have imagined the value it would add to people, brands and enterprises since then. I first heard of Twestival, the Twitter festival, back in July 2009. As I mentioned elsewhere, “There I was, sipping coffee while wondering how to make my life more meaningful… A chance mention to a colleague, a couple of emails and a Skype call later my life completely changed – I had become the regional coordinator for Twestival in India!”
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Happy Gudi Padwa and Ugadi to all our readers. Yes, we are working today like millions of others, contributing to India’s Growth story. 🙂 You know what we are working for, don’t you? Yes, we are working to serve the best to the Indian Blogosphere and pick out the best blog posts for you to read today. Here are this week’s Tangy Tuesday Picks.
The organization of Indian Twitter Users hereby announce that ‘#perkytweets is the official medium to drive away your Monday Blues’. Tag your tweets as #perkytweets to make thousands of people smile with your creativity and originality. This is an order by the OITU :). Here are this week’s tweets picked up by the creator of #perkytweets, BlogAdda. 😛
‘IPL is cricket ka Karmayudh‘ and it started off yesterday in a roaring fashion at the DY Patil Stadium at Nerul. International stars alongwith Indian bollywood stars descended upon to reiterate the statement that IPL meets Bollywood. Did you also notice that for the first time, Youtube had a bat and a ball in the logo? This was seen worldwide & just imagine the impact IPL is making in the world.