January 27, 2009

Twitter goes charity

The micro blogging site Twitter has changed over time, to become a popular tool for marketing, announcing or just telling people what you are doing, but the Twestival series of events is set to move Twitter into the fundraising arena.

Twestival will follow a pre-determined plan:

Phase one: Launch the homepage with a list of cities, which have already registered. Over the next day, organizers will be given a password and instruction to upload information to their own city site (start thinking about a first blog post). Please have a bit of patience as we are working as quickly as we can.
Phase two: All of the cities should be linked up to the homepage. Features to donate, bid on an auction, raffle and other fundraising projects will come online as buttons as they are completed.
Phase three: On 12 February 2009, Twestival will be working with partners to have live broadcasts of the events around the world.

So far, there are over hundred cities signed up including, London, Paris, New York, San Francisco, Toronto, Vancouver, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Sydney, Melbourne, and Lima.

Source [Tech Crunch]