[ taken from Christopher Penn's flickr ]

Tonight a meetup in second life, dubbed the PulverCamp/TwitterCamp proves how quickly things can happen with tools such as Twitter.

I noticed a few messages between Chris Penn and Britney Mason who were meeting on Jeff Pulver’s island, Pulveria. Within minutes, a “d text” to financialaidpodcast for his SL name, and I was off to meet Britney’s beautiful avatar and a Jedi Penn. Chris Brogan was even there with the most amazing pair of pants I’ve ever seen.

Shortly after, I posted a twitter message and mentioned in the #twitter IRC channel of the random meetup. Chris Pirillo joined us and also sent out a tweet to his loyal followers, all while trying to escape from a teleport into a plant.

Within a 15 minute time-span, there was an improptu audience of a few dozen people. The internet is beautiful.

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