The largest meet up of the Twitter community in Sri Lanka will happen on December 16. Held annually it is one of the most awaited events for the Twitter community which has been growing at a rapid pace in recent times.
This year's event is set to take place at Trace Expert City where the community invites ‘Online friends to meet offline’. A Twitter user has to have the prerequisites of 500 followers, 1000 tweets with an account which has been in operation for over 6 months in order to be eligible to attend the event.
However, despite the growing numbers Twitter in Sri Lanka is yet to catch up to other social media platforms such as Instagram and Facebook. While Instagram, the visual communication platform of Facebook seemed to be making headway among Sri Lankan social media users with its numbers taking a major jump from a 120,000 in October to a 160,000 in December; Twitter still fails to identify the Sri Lankan tweeps as a force to reckon with, mostly due to their still small numbers.