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By Katherine Sather
February 12, 2009 12:14 PM
Today is Twestival, an international Twitter charity event. Cities around the globe (including Seattle) are hosting Twitter meet-ups (tweet-and-greets?) to raise money for Charity: Water, a nonprofit that brings clean drinking water to developing countries. The Seattle meet-up is tonight at Spitfire, located on Fourth Avenue. On their Web site, organizers write: "Our goal with the Seattle Twestival is to raise enough money from their event to fund a well project in a developing country, around $5,000 USD. Attendees need not be on Twitter or into social media at all: but we want to leverage its momentum to bring about positive social change." And here's more Twitter mania: Portland has launched the first "Twisitor Center."

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I hear more about Twitter every day. It seems to be rapidly growing in popularity. I hadn't previously heard about this charity event; it sounds interesting.

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