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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
My first cool Twitter experience...tweeted that I was trying out ESET antivirus for the Mac, and a few minutes later I had a reply from the CEO of ESET and we chatted back and forth a bit.
I guess what surprises me about it is that I'd never really thought much about the potential for random, unplanned contact and information exchange between people. I rarely tweet what I'm troubleshooting or working on, but clearly there's a good chance someone else on twitter is doing the same and it opens the door to information exchange, or watching for tweets about topics they are involved in on an ongoing basis.
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I know what you mean and had a similar experience. I was in Vancouver this fall and asked no one in particular for directions to something. Within minutes some Vancouver tourism account responded and we had a bit of a back and forth.
The next day, I tweeted about the restaurant I was at and moments later someone from the restaurant was tweeting back.
In both cases, I wouldn't have been impressed if it was a bot responding to certain key words I had typed, but it was clearly a real person on the other end providing helpful information.