Last Thursday Austin, Texas joined 185 other cities around the world to host our very own Twestival! It was at Ace's Lounge on 6th Street and gave local Austin tweeters, tweeple (or whatever you can people who "tweet") an opportunity to bridge the gap to meet each other in person, and make new friends. My family was really glad I went to meet my "virtual friends" as they call it -- they were becoming a little concerned about my new-found addiction to Twitter (I've only been tweeting since November). However, I think Twestival may've sold my husband on Twitter, as he joined the very next day (@stephenlahti)!
Not only was Twestival a VERY fun time, it also benefited a great cause -- we raised $8,868 for charity: water. Let me put that in real terms for you...
$20 can give a person in Africa up to 20 years of safe drinking water, so that would mean Austin gave 443 people safe drinking water for 20 years! This is really great, especially considering Los Angeles and London each raised just over $10,000, and we're a much smaller city. This either means Austinites have a big hearts, a large percentage of us tweet OR we enjoy watching people go at it in the summo smackdown (I'm still looking for a picture of this, so if anyone has one, post a link in the comments) -- I'm thinking all three!
Oh, the band T-Bird & The Breaks also ROCKED! Hey, T-Bird, if you guys need another back-up singer please give me a ring. I don't sing, but can play a pretty mean tambourine or cow bell (as long as I can wear one of those pretty gold dresses).
Thanks to all the volunteers that put on such an amazing event! There were over 450 of us there, so I'm sure it was a lot of work! It was really cool meeting-up with all you fellow tweeple, and if I didn't get to meet you in person, feel free to look me up (@nicolelahti).
Thanks to Michael Cummings, Jungle McLovin, and Eugene Hsu for taking some great pictures. Here are just a couple, but check out their sites for more!
(Pictured above) @jljohansen, @pastelmagick, @joebangles, @statesman, @nicolelahti
Tweet-ya later!
@nicolelahti
Enjoying some good conversation at the Austin Texas Twestival.
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