Comic Rob Cottingham helps make Vancouver Twestival a success
Rob Cottingham at Vancouver Twestival March 25, 2010
Rob Cottingham is one funny guy. He took the stage and joked about not being at South by Southwest in Austin Texas last week, and how reading everyone’s tweets from there made you feel left out from the cool kids’ party. He joked about Twestival protesters (reminiscent of the Olympic protests), about the annoyance of this year’s allergy season, and more.
Rob is, according to his Twitter profile, a “social media enabler” and he’s also a cartoonist for Noise to Signal and co-founder of the company Social Signal. He blogged about his experience: “If you were there, thanks so much for laughing. You made my night and I hope you had fun.”
You are welcome to my laughter, Rob – and yes I had fun.
Lots of people worked hard to make this event happen, so thanks to everyone. Rebecca gives all the due credit over on her blog, so just go over there and check it out for details. Jonathan Hanley also covered the event for The Vancouver Observer in his article “Socializing with more than 140 characters at Vancouver Twestival“. Love that headline!
Earlier today, Twestival organizers tweeted the total was up to $310,000 so far, with a final tally to come from the hundreds of citites participating. Yay!
Thanks so much, Susan – I’m glad you had a good time! I hope everyone else had the same experience I did – a warm, friendly crowd, great food and fantastic music (Mojave, DJ Patlok and Jeremy Lim. Rebecca, Marc and the Twestival team did a terrific job.