I’ve been meaning to blog about Twestival for a while because it is simply the best use of Twitter that I’ve ever seen.
Sure, there have been a number of incidents where Twitter has saved someone’s life or provided information in an extremely timely fashion but Twestival takes it to a whole other level.
On February 12, 2009 202 cities around the world held simultaneous parties and celebrations with people on Twitter to help fundraise money for Charity:Water, an organization that’s sole mission is to provide clean drinking water to the people who don’t have it.
A most worthy cause:
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.
charity: water is a non profit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations. We give 100% of the money raised to direct project costs, funding sustainable clean water solutions in areas of greatest need.
Just $20 can give one person in a developing nation clean water for 20 years.
Read that last line again: $20 dollars can give one person clean water for 20 years.
Unbelievable.
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