The curious story of Twitter, Eurovision and me

I thought I hated Eurovision. However on Saturday night I watched it and loved it. Actually, I didn't really watch it - it was on in the background - however what I really watched was the brilliant and highly entertaining feed of #eurovision tagged tweets coming through my BlackBerry's TwitterBerry app.

Tweople who I know and those who I haven't yet met (maybe never will) but are in my Twitter network, were on fantastic form. Even the BBC host of the evening, Graham Norton, was outdone by an amazing stream of hilarious and risqué witticisms from @Wossy (aka. Jonathan Ross) including:

#eurovision Please God let Andrew LW be dressed as a phantom or a cat.
and
#eurovision He is an even worse dancer then I am. And I am bad.

Interestingly, some of the most enthusiastic Tweeters were not even watching the show - but just following the hilarity through their iPhones during an evening out. As the ever-spot-on blogger Alan Patrick wrote, this mix of Twitter into the evening's entertainment made a significant difference to the Twitter-sphere's viewing experience of Euro-pop.

So, I'll be definitely joining in with the Eurovision-fun next year - even remotely via phone. It was great, it enabled me to get to know my Twitter 'social network' of 'friends' and 'followers' better (well those who were online on a Saturday night anyway - I'm sure there is a Daily Mail headline there!?) and I woke up on Sunday morning still chuckling over some of the more unique entries......