{"id":6015,"date":"2009-02-08T21:48:15","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T16:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=6015"},"modified":"2020-04-19T11:57:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T06:27:36","slug":"twestival-unites-twitter-cities-to-fund-clean-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2009\/02\/twestival-unites-twitter-cities-to-fund-clean-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Twestival Unites Twitter to Fund Clean Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twestival<\/a> is <strong>worldwide Twitter event<\/strong> happening on<strong> 12 February 2009<\/strong> in 175+ cities across the world with the aim to bring together Twitter communities for an evening of fun and raise money and awareness for charity: water.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know <strong>1.1 billion people don\u2019t have access to safe, clean drinking water<\/strong> and drilling a well can cost from $4,000 \u2013 $12,000 USD and since many people live on &lt;$1 a day, they cannot afford one in their community. Twestival cities are considering setting a goal to raise enough money from their event to fund a well project in a developing country, starting at $4,000 USD.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if New York City\u2019s taps went dry, and Jennifer Connelly fetched dirty water like millions of mothers in Africa do every day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe title=\"charity: water Public Service Announcement\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1642714?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charitywater.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Charity: water<\/a> is a non profit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations by funding sustainable clean water solutions in areas of greatest need. Twestival is <strong>organized 100% by volunteers<\/strong> around the world and 100% of money raised will go to support charity: water projects.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Harrison of charity: water talks about Twestival<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe title=\"Twestival\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/3094355?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>You can<strong> join Twestival <\/strong> by attending one of the events in your city, uploading or buying music at Twestival.fm, taking part in the t-shirt design competition and by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charitywater.org\/twestival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">donating<\/a> to charity: water. Twestival.fm is a global online music project in association with Twestival aiming to raise an additional $20,000 USD for charity. Micropayments on Twitter are made possible by Tipjoy, simple social payments.<\/p>\n<p>You can also follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/twestival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@twestival<\/a> on Twitter for updates. Join Twestival, a global event organised *by* twitterers *for* twitterers. Do <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pchere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">follow us on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was also impressed by their September Campaign asking everyone born in September to give up presents and donate to build wells instead.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe title=\"The September Campaign Trailer - 2008\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1552996?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"504\" height=\"336\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twestival is worldwide Twitter event happening on 12 February 2009 in 175+ cities across the world with the aim to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}