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Apparently it's aimed at introverts with Twitter accounts. I can't imagine something less attractive to an introvert than broadcasting your life publicly.

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I can't speak for every introvert, but I will say that, for me, introversion does not preclude me from maintaining a blog, Twitter, etc.

Yeah, I don't broadcast my life -- but I talk about things that are interesting to me, and the Internet gives me a nice medium that I can use without feeling the willpower drain that comes from having constant face-to-face interaction.

Tweeting != broadcasting your life publicly. At least, not necessarily.

Moreover, why would a bunch of introverts want to get together for this? Why would they want to make presentations about what they've done? I'm all for clever ideas but there's so many social elements to this I don't see why I'd do this if I'm not doing hackathons. If you're not social, you're not social--the end.

In a similar fashion to a few comments above, you may be conflating shyness for introversion. One can be introverted and social at the same time. Presentations specifically are a very different form of social interaction than ad-hoc interaction with large groups; one involves speaking _to_ people while the other involves speaking _with_ people. For example, I rank pretty high on the "I" side of the MBTI[1] but I enjoy giving presentations and speeches and I'm even a member of a Toastmasters club [2]. Given the choice of presenting organized information to a group versus chatting up a bunch of partygoers, I will almost always choose the former.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator

[2] http://www.toastmasters.org/

Edit: clarity

I think it's pretty amusing that you've decided to interpret a mass of comments from people who find this idea ridiculous as an opportunity to educate us all about the distinction between introversion and shyness. Clearly if this distinction is meaningful, this idea will be a big hit. When it instead falters, will you consider the possibility that perhaps you're just unusual, rather than that we are all uneducated?

aashay is hardly the first person to decide the distinction is meaningful:

https://www.google.com/search?q=shyness+vs.+introversion

Some people may use Twitter to follow information, not just broadcast. Also I have friends who are very extroverted online but when they get into a flesh meet they become quiet. So I wouldn't say using Twitter is entirely without merit.

Some people may use twitter to follow information, not just broadcast. Also I have friends who are very extroverted online but when they get into a flesh meet they become quiet. So I wouldn't say this is entirely without merit.

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