Yesterday saw Twestivals taking place in nearly 200 cities across the world. For the uninitiated, Twestival was the brain child of Amanda Rose (@Amanda) – an event to bring users of the popular micro-blogging platform, Twitter together to raise money for charity:water .
Last night, bigmouths Andrew Girdwood, Wendy Rees and myself went along to the EdTwestival at Hawk and Hunter which was attended by nearly 250 other Twitterers from all around Scotland (and beyond). As well as getting an opportunity to meet the people we’ve been following and communicating with on Twitter, there was some excellent music from Peter Gregson, Epic26 and Plum as well as some entertaining compering from Ewan Spence.
But most importantly, the Twitterers at EdTwestival managed to raise around £3400 for charity:water. Doing our bit to help the Twestival total towards its $1m target.
As well as the mass of Twittering going on during the night heliping to raise the profile of EdTwestival, BBC Scotland came along on the night and gave the event a fantastic write up
Pictures from the night’s shenanigans can be found on Flickr.
February 13, 2009
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