FestBuzz

That’s right Chris Cox has won our first ever Fes­t­Buzz Twit­ter of the Year award– reward­ing the best Twit­ter based shenani­gans at the Edin­burgh Festivals. 

Chris, Twit­ter alias @bigcox, has been a keen-user of the micro blog­ging sys­tem for the last 8 months, but his usage has really kicked off while in Edin­burgh in August, hav­ing tweeted over 300 times in the last 27 days. This is in between run­ning his own show, Mind Over Pat­ter (8.30pm, Pleas­ance Dome), appear­ing in Mark Watson’s prom­e­nade the­atre piece as the mind-reading concierge, Eric, and mak­ing appear­ances across the Fringe in a vari­ety of vari­ety shows.

While gar­ner­ing some excel­lent reviews from estab­lished crit­ics, what caught FestBuzz’s keen eye were the reviews he was receiv­ing from fans via Twit­ter. 37 of these have been mea­sured by FestBuzz’s sen­ti­ment detec­tion soft­ware, giv­ing him a 5 star rat­ing overall.

Quotes from audi­ence members:

“Mak­ing the impos­si­ble pos­si­ble, with laughs.” @kateweb

“I was delight­fully baf­fled by @bigcox‘s Mind over Pat­ter.” @shell_here

“Very awe­some freaky mind thin­gies.” @tashadhanraj 

Chris also fea­tured in @tiernandouieb’s sec­ond Twit­ter Com­edy event– but due to tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties was forced to tweet his show from back­stage at a tech rehearsal for Mind Over Pat­ter. He still impressed the audi­ence though with a trick which forced their feet to rotate with­out their own volition.

Per­haps the most impor­tant aspect of @bigcox’s Twit­ter usage is inter­ac­tion. Unlike some come­di­ans who set up Twit­ter accounts and don’t inter­act with their fans, Chris has a rat­ing of 79% for Con­ver­sa­tion Quo­tient, mean­ing he has replied to a large amount of the @ mes­sages he receives.

Thank you to Chris for attend­ing Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of the Fringe show today to accept the award, and for per­form­ing some mind read­ing stunts on the spot. Fes­t­Buzz can’t wait to see what he’ll be tweet­ing this time next year…