iomart Hosting has a Tweet for social media festival

Managed hosting and cloud computing services company iomart Hosting is backing Twestival Global 2010, the worldwide series of social networking events that are taking place today.

Users of micro-blogging site Twitter based in hundreds of cities around the world will get together offline to raise money for education charity Concern Worldwide by hosting local events to have fun and create awareness. 

iomart Hosting is sponsoring the Twestivals in both Glasgow and London. Says Phil Worms, director of corporate communications for iomart Hosting: “This is a great way of showing the power of social media. Companies shouldn’t be shy of using networks like Twitter both for their own business reasons and also to benefit charity events like Twestival.”

The Glasgow Twestival is taking place at the Lansdowne Bar & Kitchen, while the London event is at the Cable Club in Bermondsey St.  Money raised from the events will go to help education projects run by Concern Worldwide.
 
Phil Worms will be doing a ‘cone dash’ – taking a traffic cone between the two venues on the day – in honour of the cone that normally sits on top of the Duke of Wellington’s statue in the middle of Glasgow, and the emblem of the Glasgow event.  
Twestival Global was launched in February 2009, when social networkers in more than 200 international cities hosted events to raise more than $250,000 to provide clean drinking water to people in Uganda, Ethiopia and India.