Tweet and meet: Man, 32, decides to travel Britain introducing himself to all of his Twitter followers after dreaming up the 'stupid' idea one Saturday morning

Tweet and meet: Man, 32, decides to travel Britain introducing himself to all of his Twitter followers after dreaming up the 'stupid' idea one Saturday morning
The majority of most people's Twitter followers are merely cyber strangers, known only through the digital text of 140 characters.
But one user of the social networking site decided he wanted to get to know his online chums a little more - and set himself the challenge of tracking down and meeting them face-to-face.
Glaswegian magician and writer Declan Dineen, 32, was whiling away a boring Saturday afternoon when he came up with his fun idea.

Mission: Declan Dineen set out to meet his cyber friends on Twitter - and has taken snaps with 150 of them

Idle thought: Declan, 32, came up with the idea in January but didn't think much of it

Conjurer: The Glaswegian magician had 170 followers at the time and set about filtering out spam followers

True friends: He worked out he had 150 'real' followers and started meeting them in his home city

Snowball: Before long he found himself booking train tickets all over the country so to meet far-flung followers

Snap happy: Soon Declan found himself travelling further and further south

Beaming: After passing through the Midlands he made his way to the south coast and Brighton

Racking up the miles: He was determined to continue the quirky quest and headed to the West Country

Shining light: One of the highlights of his mammoth journey was meeting followers in his native Wales