I just got out of a brainstorming session the CCC held, where they called together about 35 of Downtown’s creative types to discuss new ways to promote Downtown Memphis. Not surprisingly, Twitter was mentioned.
So I’m going to pose a question to you, the readers, and I’m going to do something I’ve never done before – I’m going to turn on comments for this post. Which Twitter users provide valuable information about Downtown Memphis? Could be businesses that use Twitter to promote their events, or locals who use Twitter to talk about Downtown.
Please respond in the comments thread, giving the Twitterer’s username and a one or two sentence summary of what kind of info they provide. If this works well, I may do targeted comments threads again in the future. (Edited to add: Click where it says “No comments”, or where it says the number of comments once people start posting them, at the end of this post to leave a comment.)
As for me, I’m “whatsthefiresale” on Twitter. Once a day I text the name of the beer that is on $2.75 Fire Sale at the Downtown Flying Saucer to my Twitter account. Through a plug-in it shows up in the upper left corner of my blog. The Saucer doesn’t pay me to do this, by the way – it’s just something I started as a service for my fellow Saucer regulars, and a way to maybe get a few extra eyeballs a day on my blog.
“fedexforum” posts info on upcoming FedExForum events.
A good resource is Twitterholic.
http://twitterholic.com/top100/followers/bylocation/Memphis,+TN/
The other one is tweetmemphis
http://tweetmemphis.wetpaint.com/page/Memphis+People?t=anon
Both show Memphis Tweeters, sorry its not downtown orientated
“Gates of Memphis” usually has some good info.
“3onyourside” is an off and on twitter of top headlines from Channel 3 News. Sometimes useful. Would be more useful if they kept it going full time.
“MemphisFlyer” is a continuing source of interesting news.
“memphisnews” is the Commercial Appeal’s twitter feed.
“kookycanuck” tends to post various useful tidbits about downtown as well. He also tends to respond back to everybody.
And, of course, if you’re interested in what’s happening in the zombie scene, there’s always “memphiszombies”.
@Patrick_PR , @PeabodyMemphis, @kookycanuck, @MemphisFlyer, @jensized are just some of the Memphians talking about Downtown on Twitter! There are a lot of cool Memphis people on Twitter right now.
I don’t know of anyone that tweets about downtown specifically. I thought that was your job, Paul. Maybe @kookycanuck??
@memtraf << live (or semi anyway) Memphis traffic reports. I am @SWB, but usually someone beats me to the news. Also @memphisnews (Commercial Appeal). @cookycanuck just said he’d do a 2 dollar beer special for a tweetup, so let’s storm his place!
For The Peabody:
@PeabodyMemphis
@MemphisRed
@PeabodyAngela
Hey guys, I set up a wiki for possible tweetups in the MEM area…. please visit http://mem.tweetup.kastpod.org/ and spread the word on your own blogs!