Twitter users as a force for good? That\u2019s what many Twitterers are looking to do with the upcoming Twestivals.<\/p>\n
The short history of the event starts last September in London, with a group of people connected by Twitter having a meeting, coffee, drinks and raising some money for local homeless charities. As more local communities sprung up around the world doing the same thing, the idea of focusing on a single day and a large push to bring awareness of the charity:water<\/a> project.<\/p>\n Thus the Global Twestival<\/a> was born.<\/p>\n It\u2019s happening on Feb 12th, and I will be attending the Edinburgh Twestival<\/a> \u2013 I might even have some prizes to go into the fundraising raffle \u2013 and with over 60 cities taking part (here\u2019s the list<\/a> on the right hand side) you should be able to find one close by. If not, why not consider organising one yourself?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Twitter users as a force for good? That\u2019s what many Twitterers are looking to do with the upcoming Twestivals. The short history of the event starts last September in London, with a group of people connected by Twitter having a meeting, coffee, drinks and raising some money for local homeless charities. As more local communities sprung up around the world doing the same thing, the idea of focusing on a single day and a large push to bring awareness of the charity:water project. Thus the Global Twestival was born. It\u2019s happening on Feb 12th, and I will be attending the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[685],"tags":[770,769,87],"class_list":["post-1831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twitter-web-20","tag-fundraising-charitywater","tag-twestival","tag-twitter","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-tx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}