Twitter seems to satisfy two strong human needs: our desire to tell people about ourselves, and our desire to know what’s going on with the people around us (physically or virtually). Libraries and other cultural institutions in New Zealand have taken to Twitter with huge enthusiasm, including the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, the National Library of New Zealand and Te Papa. This demonstration will explain how we took our passion for NZ culture to the masses via Twitter and why we could never have predicted the resulting awesomeness.