Foursquare just brought me an interesting contact and interaction.
A few days ago, I checked in at a nearby Panera. It’s not the one I use for the majority of my meetings, so I wasn’t yet Mayor of the location. The check in on Monday made me Mayor and ousted the previous Mayor. I didn’t think much of it and went on with my day.
Later, I received this Mention on Twitter:
@evandyson: @1to1Discovery Oh my goodness! Let’s fight (with bagels) #foursquare
I tweeted back something pleasant and then went to check out his profile, which led me to his website. He’s a freelance photojournalist, and I fell in love with his work. I decided to email him to see how my contacts could help him out.
He emailed back that he was not pushing the photojournalism right now. We connected on LinkedIn, and I thought that might be (mostly) the end of it.
Then the next night, I got an email from Foursquare telling me I had been outed as Mayor. Aha! I couldn’t let that go unacknowledged, so I sent him a congratulatory tweet.
And then I got another tweet, with a link to a video. http://bit.ly/cMgIM6. He’d videoed himself on his way to Panera to oust me.
It’s been an odd but funny series of interactions. I’ve tweeted him back suggesting me actually meet in person. Maybe we will, maybe we won’t. But it’s been fun. It’s the beginnings of a relationship.
And it never would have happened without social media and a darned game!
Anyone else have an odd social media “meeting”story?
