{"id":3744,"date":"2009-04-29T15:55:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T15:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=3744"},"modified":"2025-06-05T16:46:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T16:46:44","slug":"twitter-app-helps-promote-tweetups-and-other-live-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/twitter\/twitter-app-helps-promote-tweetups-and-other-live-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter app helps promote Tweetups and other live events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">If you&#8217;re promoting a Tweetup, an event where people who Twitter come together to meet in person, or an event that&#8217;s open to anyone regardless of whether they tweet&#8212;like a class, a book-signing, a\u00a0fund-raiser, or a fashion show at a department store&#8212;check out <a href=\"http:\/\/twtvite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twtvite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just fill in the blanks on the screen (event name, where, when, time) and describe your event in 140 or fewer characters.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example of an event on Friday, May 1,\u00a0hosted by Hanes,\u00a0where people can meet their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hanescomfort\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hanes Comfort Crew <\/a>bloggers and experience the Disney Design-a-Tee Store at Disney World\u00a0in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3754   aligncenter\" style=\"margin: 1px;vertical-align: middle;border: black 1px solid\" title=\"twtvite for Hanes event\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/twtvite.jpg\" alt=\"twtvite for Hanes event\" width=\"525\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2009\/04\/twtvite.jpg 525w, https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2009\/04\/twtvite-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">After creating your event, you can also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">Designate whether the event is public or private, and limit the number of RSVPs.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">See pictures of attendees<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">People following you on Twitter can leave comments and questions.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">You can display all tweets related to your Tweetup (and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/blog\/how-to-use-twitter-hashtags-for-promotion-publicity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#hashtags<\/a>).<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">Make it searchable and available to travelers via <a href=\"http:\/\/yowtrip.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TwtTRIP<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">Display the location on a Google map and add it to your calendar.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">Embed the invitation on your website.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Smart Publicity Hounds should be able to think of all kinds of uses for this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Public speakers can promote public and private speaking engagements and training sessions. Musicians can promote concerts. Artists\u00a0can advertise art shows and gallery openings. Tourist attractions can use it to promote upcoming\u00a0events. Retailers can promote special sales and open houses.\u00a0Anyone who hosts fund-raisers can reach many more attendees and donors than\u00a0through traditional media&#8212;and for free!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">A hat tip to PR pro Judy Lederman, who I love to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JudySL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">follow on Twitter<\/a>, for sharing this. She says she likes\u00a0Twtvite for these reasons:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;text-align: left\">&#8220;It&#8217;s shotgun&#8212;an alternative to a more targeted evite (which would be hard to send to ALL your Twitter followers).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;text-align: left\">&#8220;It&#8217;s green&#8212;no paper needed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;text-align: left\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a wonderful way to facilitate meetings with all the random people you&#8217;ve been blasting to on Twitter.\u00a0It&#8217;s always fun to meet people you&#8217;ve interacted with online.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;text-align: left\">&#8220;And yes, the events are live&#8212;although it could work for virtual meetings I suppose. But the whole point is to invite tweeps to brick and mortar\u00a0events.\u00a0 This is the element that is currently a bit weak in Twitter&#8212;creating the &#8220;bridge&#8221;&#8212;but\u00a0apps like this will help facilitate it and hopefully assist retailers in building business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">How will you be using\u00a0Twtvite to promote your events?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re promoting a Tweetup, an event where people who Twitter come together to meet in person, or an event that&#8217;s open to anyone regardless of whether they tweet&#8212;like a class, a book-signing, a\u00a0fund-raiser, or a fashion show at a department store&#8212;check out Twtvite. Just fill in the blanks on the screen (event name, where,\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/twitter\/twitter-app-helps-promote-tweetups-and-other-live-events\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":2,"wds_primary_category":683,"footnotes":""},"categories":[683],"tags":[328,645,637],"class_list":{"0":"post-3744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-twitter","7":"tag-event-publicity","8":"tag-free-social-media-tools","9":"tag-social-media-productivity","10":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42101,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744\/revisions\/42101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}