Portland’s group of tech and design innovators is one of the highest-ranked communities on Twitter. Those of us who’ve used the service have vastly expanded our friendships, happiness and experiences. A lot of us connect in real life on a regular basis because of Twitter. But I felt there was one very important thing missing.

You see, the majority of Portland Tech events happen in the evening.

So we had this one in the morning.

The event was arranged a few days before on Twitter, and, for fun, I made the breakfast meetup into an Upcoming event.

Initially, it was a meetup between @stevenwalling @hillerns @brampitoyo and I. Then @Kram and @lawduck joined in. Once the Upcoming event was posted more and more people began to RSVP. Then the article was “Floristed“, and this spurred additional RSVP’s.

I only expected a small party of people to be at Fuller’s, but when @brampitoyo, @neophillia and I walked in the door, we found that entire right side of the restaurant was taken up by Twitter people. In all, 11 Tweeple showed up, and we all had an amazing breakfast. It was especially exciting to meet @hillerns in Real Life for a longer amount of time than our brief encounter at Inverge.

Thanks to everyone who made it.

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