What are you doing? This is the question that Twitter poses to every user, everyday. By answering this simple question, users can network and share information, ideals, websites and cool finds. Joining together like-minded folk, Twitter has created unique online communities around the world. In September last year, a Twitter community in London decided to come out from behind the web interface to meet and socialise face-to-face, in order to network and raise money for a local homeless charity. The move has sparked a worldwide Twitter phenomenon, where Twitter communities have been inspired to come together in the name of charity and goodwill. And so Twestival was born. 175 cities around the world – from Lima to Honolulu, Tokyo, Brighton and Brisbane – will host the first-ever Twitter festival in the name of charity: water, a non-profit organisation that funds clean water solutions in developing nations around the world. See the February issue of map magazine for a feature on charity: water’s founder, Scott Harrison. Brisbane’s Twestival is being hosted by Metro Arts on February 12, and will include an array of live music, burlesque performance, art displays, theatre and cabaret. So this Thursday, what are you doing?
