Twestival 2010 is on the horizon and once again I will be heading up the organisation of the Nottingham event. The last two events have been great with over £500 raised for worthwhile causes. At this event we’ll be concentrating on requesting corporate sponsorship.
I’ll be looking for a team of keen volunteers to help choose [...]
Nottingham Twestival is taking place at 7.30pm on Thursday 10th September 2009 at Muse, Hockley. This time round the very worthy charity is The National Autistic Society – Nottingham.
Volunteer meetups are currently taking place with much more help than last time, thanks all! With the venue agreed it is now the interesting part of [...]
It seems appropriate to find out about a virtual festival through a friend on Facebook who I’ve never met. This lead to a shared experience with hundreds of other festival-goers who never get to meet each other.
The Invisible Festival is taking place over the weekend of 8/9 August 2009. The venue for the festival is [...]
With the continuing speculation (Silicon Alley Insider, BuzzMachine, WebProNews) surrounding the possible purchase of Twitter by Google why not get a sneak preview of the end result by using Twitseek.
It’s like Google, only for Twitter. It’s an attempt to present the results from a Twitter search in a different format. It’s information from Twitter that [...]
Terms trending on Twitter and what they found on Twitseek:
Twitseeking BRIT Awards
U2 at the Brit Awards
Liveblogging from BritMusicScene
Twitseeking Girls Aloud
Photos from Philip Schofield @schofe
Popjustice is twitpiccing too @popjustice
Twitseeking Duffy
Pride of Wales
Duffy backs illegal downloading
Twitseeking Coldplay
Coldplay post their own pics
Coldplay to give away album
Other terms from throughout the night:Bono, Kylie, James Corden.
Short URL: http://www.martinwright.tv/u/13
It’s finally time to reveal who the hidden stars of the Nottingham Twestival were:
2. The iPhone
With limited access to useful websites at work, the iPhone was crucial in being online all the time. Without it many fewer tweets would have been twittered.
1. Tweetie
Having migrated from Twitterific to Tweetie about a month ago, it’s handling of [...]
Like most people, I only heard of Twestival shortly before it was due to happen. Just over two weeks before. I wanted to make sure I was there as I was fed up with missing out as all ‘local’ events took place in Sheffield or Leeds. I was definitely going to go until I realised [...]
You wait ages for a tech meetup in Nottingham then two of them come along in a single week!
NottTuesday on Tues 10th Feb 2009 and Nottingham Twestival on Thurs 12th Feb 2009.
NottTuesday is being put together by Adam Bird of Esendex. Twestival is part of a worlwide fundraising effort being run organised by volunteers using [...]
A a way to promote Twestival in general and Nottingham Twestival in particular, my post Using Twestival To Increase Your Audience While Helping Raise Money for Charity, has been included at Twitip.com.
The post covers the benefits of being involved with Twestival to raise your profile, raise some money and all round raise your spirits.
I’m very [...]
This week has seen much attention around some of the celebrities that have started posting on Twitter. @schofe, @wossy and @rustyrockets have been posting very frequently, and more importantly, interestingly. Stephen Fry is a well established celebrity on Twitter and even discussed it with Jonathon Ross on his comeback show which reached a much larger [...]
