WASHINGTON, March 23, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Twestival Local, the pioneering charity movement, will inspire the biggest global charity event ever organised through social media on March 24th, with ...

The rooftop of the Canary Hotel was all a-twitter Friday night as about 200 people converged for the first Twestival Local — Santa Barbara. Friday’s objective was to raise $5,000 for the nonprofit DRI ...

Back in February, we told you about Twestival, a worldwide "tweet-up" in the name of raising money for charity:water. Over 200 cities, incuding Los Angeles and Anaheim hosted their own Twestivals.

In less than two weeks, Twestival Local, an event inspired by a group of London Twitterers’ Harvest Twestival in 2008, will be taking place in cities all over the world. On The Prairie, Lawrence will ...

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This Thursday, something incredible is going to happen:Twestival. Thought up by event producer Amanda Rose, Twestival is a unique global event that aims to raise $1m (£676,525) for charity: water, an ...

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An editorial in The Nation, a newspaper in Thailand, suggests that the country’s philanthropy focuses too much on temples and not enough on “intangible ideas” to advance knowledge and improve people’s ...

Last night, local twitter-users gathered at the Aloft Hotel in Tempe to socialize, try great food from local businesses as donate money to St. Mary’s Food Bank during Twestival Local Phoenix.

USA Today reports on the start Wednesday of the second Twestival, an international event that brings together users of the social-media site Twitter to raise money for selected charities. The first ...

Just when you thought Twitter couldn’t get any faster, the tweeple of Oman found a way to get the real time application surfing waves by having a Twestival on the world’s fastest catamaran. A ...