Tweet. Meet. Give.
Register your city for Twestival Local:
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Twestival Local : Saturday 12 September 2009
Twestival Global : Thursday 4 February 2010
Once you have registered, we will send feedback and further instructions within 48 hours. Start connecting with your local Twitterers and think about what cause your Twitter community would support for Twestival Local.
The Twestival.com website will be updated with more information soon.
Official city registration opens July 1st.
Mashable : Twestival Local: Biggest Twitter Fundraising Event in History Returns
The First Twestival for charity: water
On 12 February 2009 202 cities around the world held Twestivals, bringing together the Twitter community for an evening of fun and to raise money and awareness for charity: water.
Watch the first Twestival well being drilled in Ethiopia: 11-14 April 2009.
The projected amount raised by Twestival is $250,000 USD.
$250,000 USD = 55 water projects in Ethiopia, Uganda and India - clean water for just over 17,000 people.
Amounts will be calculated for each city on this website once the money has been received by charity: water.
You can still take part in Twestival by:
- Donating to charity: water.
Twestival is organized 100% by volunteers in cities around the world and 100% of the money raised from these events will go directly to support charity: water projects.
The Twestival history
In September 2008, a group of Twitterers based in London UK decided to organise an event where the local Twitter community could socialize offline; meet the faces behind the avatars, enjoy some entertainment, have a few drinks and tie this in with a food drive and fundraising effort for a local homeless charity.
The bulk of the event was organized in under two weeks, via Twitter and utilized the talents and financial support of the local Twittersphere to make this happen.
Around the world similar stories started appearing of local Twitter communities coming together and taking action for a great cause. Twestival was born out of the idea that if cities were able to collaborate on an international scale, but working from a local level, it could have a spectacular impact.
By rallying together globally, under short timescales, for a single aim on the same day, the Twestival hopes to bring awareness to this global crisis.
charity: water
charity: water is a non profit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations by funding sustainable clean water solutions in areas of greatest need.
Right now 1.1 billion people on the planet don’t have access to safe, clean drinking water. That’s one in six of us.
Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation cause 80% of all sickness and disease, and kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war.
Many communities in developing nations often have a plentiful supply of clean drinking water just below the ground, but no way to get to it.
This is where charity: water and their partner organizations come in. Drilling a well can cost from $4,000 - $12,000 USD and many living on less than $1 a day cannot afford one in their community, even if the money is combined.
Twestival cities
Twestival cities might consider setting a goal to raise enough money from their event to fund a well project in a developing country, starting at $4,000 USD.
We all know that Twitter can be a powerful communications tool. It can connect, mobilize and inform people around the world instantly.
Those of us on Twitter know of its ability to organically create interesting communities from those people who find and follow each other. It is proven from the first Twestival that bringing the Twittersphere together for a special event is not only a memorable night; it has momentum to bring about social change.
This site will be the central hub of information and schedule of events with links to Twitter, photosites and video content sites.
- Follow @twestival for updates.
- Contact @amanda for global enquiries.
- See the development blog for technical site updates.
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