Tweets for Change
Work fast. Do good. Invite everybody. Mash up these appealingly simple strategies with a Web 2.0 tool like Twitter, the popular microblogging platform, and you wind up with something called a Twestival.
During the world’s first Twestival, on Feb. 12, near-simultaneous fundraisers took place in pubs and clubs in 202 cities around the globe. The buzz began building a couple of weeks earlier, thanks to chatter in the Twitterverse. (For anyone who’s managed to miss the latest Internet phenomenon, Twitter allows people to post short updates, called tweets, which others can subscribe to and read.)
Twestival attendees got to meet…
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