How things have changed #NEFollower

When I first joined twitter back in 2007 I did what most people do, follow my friend, follow some of his friends then sit back and try and work out what the hell this crazy thing called twitter is.

After a few weeks of getting my head round it and realising that celebrity’s were a waste of my time (Due to them living on a different planet) I started looking for people that lived local to me.  There was no Geotagging of tweets, no search.twitter.com so it was old school method of searching for peoples Bio locations.

I searched “Newcastle”, “Gateshead”, “Sunderland”, “North East”, “Toon” and I remember struggling to find that many people that lived on my door step. 

When I seen the #NEFollower tag today I was amazed as to how things have changed.  An almost endless stream of people that are embarrassing twitter to help promote everything from charity’s to Allotments and all living in the north east.

Well done North East tweeters, you are all over this shit!