BOSSdev is no stranger to Social Media and the Social Media community. After participating in various Tweetups with the local Metro Detroit Twitter community, yours truly, Cosmin Ghiurau and Grant Kravitz had a vision to organize a morning “Breakfast Tweetup” as most Tweetups were held in the evenings. In this manner, professionals using Twitter could meet up and along with a casual networking opportunity, have a chance to put a real world feel to the online personality on Twitter.

Collaborating with a Michigan based coffee chain Biggby Coffee in the city of Madison Heights, Cosmin and Grant from BOSSdev launched the first ever “Breakfast Tweetup” in the Metro Detroit area.

@danielbora – Biggby’s Coffee taking orders.

On Tuesday April 14th from 8am – 10am Twitter users showed up and began chatting things up both face to face along with the occasional tweets to the Twitter “back channel” of #bfastup. All the tweets from the event were displayed via the software Tweetdeck on the 50 inch plasma at Biggby’s, a great synergy of both real and virtual world usage of Twitter to establish professional relationships. Of course also enjoying their favorite coffee, latte’s, and pastries. Some people even posted Tweets of what coffee order they wanted.

There was great conversation, great networking, and above all great coffee to keep us going. Listed below are some of the participants during the event.

@cosguru
@gkravitz
@scottheath
@ruthreaser
@ddelonge
@mollysly
@davemurr
@balanon
@davebenjamin
@k_labudde
@hillsdalesam
@joshyurich
@virtualjason
@danielherdean
@jfavreau
@mruffi
@sullyvan
@sandradeelee
@kaylook
@brian_halicki
@karenevanstm
@danielbora
@kristanabraham

Tweetdeck on plasma screen for all to follow tweets in real time.

A big thank you to all who arrived and also participated even though they were not physically at Biggby’s ( @sazbean, @davepeckens ) The feedback was to continue the event at another date so please be on the lookout for the next Breakfast Tweetup!

Ps. Great recap from @davemurr with video – http://digg.com/u111ZK

More photos from the event:

@joshyurich and @mruffi – “talking”

@virtualjason and @gkravitz