Over the weekend, I was lost in the dark rainy Al Quoz area trying to get to a gallery where 8 short plays were being staged by Dubai Drama Group in celebration of its 25^th anniversary. While driving in circles looking for a lit up sign that says The JamJar, my mind wandered to a different place away from the big warehouses and big machinery and I thought: how would my weekend have been without Twitter?

On Thursday night, I got a tweet from @shelo9 and @mich1mich saying they’re heading to @wildpeeta (of course!) – amazing shawarma, hunger, and the need to be around smart and interesting people drove me there. And that was my Thursday night; all about good conversations, good tweets and definitely a nice shawarma for dinner!

On Friday morning, I was trying to set up a router for my wireless network. Of course, the last thing you expect a Luddite like me to do on her Friday. I was tweeting to people via my mobile (those who were awake then) to help out and it was a step-by-step process, or rather a tweet-by-tweet process, until I got my wireless in place and my thanks went back to all who were helping from my new wireless network! Hurray!

Saturday was the most interesting of all, I finally made it to The JamJar gallery and managed to catch the last 10 minutes of the play written by @Hajer13, sadly missing @PurpleNano’s part. However, I was happy to watch the next play where @Hajer13 was the leading actress (and she rocked by the way!). After that, I headed to MOE where DIFF is taking place. I would never have had the chance to watch the long anticipated movie Amreeka if @mich1mich hadn’t mentioned that she had an extra ticket. So, Saturday night ended with a great movie with great tweeps that I met (to name few: @nagham, @esperanca, @tomgara and @mita56 – shame she couldn’t make it in!)

So, if I had to rewrite the above taking out the Twitter factor I’d be left with ermm… probably nothing! This blog post also reminds me that I have to admit to @PKGulati that he was right and I was wrong! We had a conversation about the objective of Twitter a few months ago at the Irish Village. As he said, the aim of Twitter is not to have virtual acquaintances but to build connections on a professional, and why not, on a personal level too!

My life without Twitter? I wouldn’t even dare to imagine! In a town like Dubai, formerly known as one of the loneliest places in the world to be single, people are meeting like minded people, talking in new ways and opening up dialogue that otherwise would never have happened. And yes, I’m a Twitter addict and you all know it.