ChattUp '08: Chattanooga Tweets the Vote

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Tuesday night, 75 Chattanooga-area residents, most somehow connected via Twitter, gathered for ChattUp '08. We came together to count the votes and socialize face-to-face, many for the first time, in the loft-style digs of Coptix. We congregated around televisions and projector screens, typed feverishly on (mostly) Apple laptops and shared a few drinks. And as our online and offline connections intertwined throughout the evening, we witnessed history together.

But you weren't looking for an inspirational West Wing-esque post, were you? As might be expected, the young tech-savvy crowd leaned heavily to the left, but it was clearly a nonpartisan event. Just as we'd hoped, there were elitists, mavericks, independents and all sorts of people in between. The brave Adrienne Royer—who I thought might've been the Palin impersonator campaigning on Hixson Pike earlier that evening—showed up proudly rocking her Palin Power T-shirt. We even had a celebrity sighting when the always entertaining Andy Berke stopped by. I spent the evening mostly neglecting my self-imposed assignment to cover the Chattarati Twitter feed and instead trying to meet as many new faces as possible. I didn't make it around to everyone, but luckily it was, you know, a Twitter event. There was a bit of digital evidence left behind about what went down: Here's the unofficial transcript and what Twitter said about ChattUp. If you were there, share your stories. If you weren't, hopefully we'll see you next time.