How did you first hear about thwack?

Hmm, since my first experience with Orion was an already installed but terribly set up instance of 9, I first saw the links to thwack in the console.  It was an invaluable resource once I started exploring.  I hope that answers the question.

I first leaned about thwack when I was in the "training" phase of my current job.  I was told to watch Geek Speak videos and browse thwack while my accounts and stuff were set up.  This was in a shop that was already making heavy use of Solarwinds.

Member since 2007.  I believe I joined after hearing about it talking to support

Joined in October 2010. I've slept many times since then; but I seem to recall we had an ancient version of Engineer's Toolset (v4 springs to mind!) and I was asked to look into updating it. Obvious place to do research was the SolarWinds website. Ended up suggesting (and the company agreeing) we switch to the Orion products. Probably somewhere in the midst of all that I spotted the thwack link on the website and ended up joining given I was going to be supporting the SolarWinds tools.

My manager recommended I check it out now that our company is implementing the solution...

I was going through the "Training" links in Orion at our company in anticipation of getting an interview for a new position on the network team. I signed up, read some .pdf s, and  got the Job.