3 Tweets 4 Katie

Cincinnatians and music fans around the world are preparing to honor the late singer-songwriter Katie Reider – an inspiration to thousands for her exquisite music, her remarkable courage and strength, and her inclusive values – with 3 Tweets 4 Katie: The World's Largest Tweet-Up from P&G Gardens during the annual Taste of Cincinnati festival May 23-25, 2009. Approximately 500,000 attend Taste of Cincinnati, and the ultimate goal of the tweet-up campaign is for 500,000 to download Reider’s music online. Tweets posted at http://3Tweets4Katie.com direct peeps across the globe to download Reider’s music from http://500Kin365.org.


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Tens of thousands of tweets are expected to fill the Twitterverse over the Memorial Day weekend in honor Reider’s life and music. The Friends of Katie Reider encourage peeps around the world to adopt new Twitterminology and embrace a Reider family tradition: “3" means “I love you” and “4” means “I love you too.” With tweets limited to 140 characters on Twitter, 3 Tweets 4 Katie: The World’s Largest Tweet-Up organizers believe the Reider family tradition of “3” and “4” may likely gain a global following as new Twitter shorthand.

During the Memorial Day weekend, Taste of Cincinnati will spotlight the Katie Reider Stage, presented by Avalon Salon and Metromix.com Cincinnati at P&G Gardens, as the first stage in the history of Cincinnati named for a pioneer of gay and lesbian rights and as the first stage in the annals of Taste of Cincinnati named for a performer. The City of Cincinnati will proclaim May 23, which would have been Reider’s 31st birthday, as “Katie Reider Day in Cincinnati.” Reider passed away on July 14, 2008, at the age of 30 after battling a rare facial tumor that robbed her of her voice and sight in her left eye but not her will to live.