Special Twestival t-shirts are now available for purchase from Myntra.com. Help us support our cause by buying these cool t-shirts for just Rs. 299/-.

Visit the following site for designs

http://www.myntra.com/twestivalindia

Myntra will donate 100% profits from the sale of Twestival T-shirts to Concern Worldwide.

Great news! We have Tata Docomo as Official Sponsors for Twestival Mumbai 2010 happening on 25th March! Woho! Thanks to Tata Docomo for sponsoring a noble cause!

Hello Everyone!

I am Monik Pamecha (@monikkinom) and i am writing this post on behalf of our ROCKING Organizing team for Mumbai Twestival 2010!!

This time our team decided that since Twestival is a community event, why shouldn’t the idea be sourced from you?

SO if you get a chance to have your twestival, how should it be? Like a school fair? Killer Party? You decide!

We are hunting for ideas and we would love to hear yours! You can send in your Twestival Ideas to

twestmumideas@gmail.com

We will get back to as soon as possible and discuss it. After selecting the best five ideas, we will put them up for public voting and if it gets the major votes, that’s it!

We will be accepting ideas starting from now, for one week. We will accept entries till 27th of February. We are sorry about this deadline but you see, on the organizers part we need to start working on the ideas soon as the event is going to be on 25th March which isn’t much far! So don’t waste time, send in your Twestival Idea/Concept to twestmumideas@gmail.com!

Please do keep in Mind, along with everything else make sure you do include a idea as to how will we raise funds for the charity we are supporting (concern-worldwide) which is the most important aspect of Twestival and how can we spread awareness!

We will be waiting to hear from you!

Winners of the Twestival Twausie (housie):
1st line: I forgot the name, Rs500 worth of gift voucher from The Bombay Store
2nd line: @hiyer won the Rs500 worth of gift voucher from The Bombay Store
3rd line: @rajc, Rs500 worth of gift voucher from The Bombay Store

Full house: Prashansa Jhaveri (@pjhaveri) (Rs1000 worth of gift voucher from The Bombay Store & Rs2500 worth of makeover Gift vouchers from Shoppers Stop)
2nd Full house: Chandni (@fundacause)  and Reshma (@miketesting123) (Rs2500 worth of makeover Gift vouchers to each winner from Shoppers Stop)

Wackiest Twancers on the Twestival Twance Floor (oh Twance = Dance, if you are still not speaking the twanguage):

Lucky tweeps to win Rs2500 worth of makeover Gift vouchers from Shoppers Stop were:

1. @ideasmithy
2. Divya  Bhatt(@cute_divya)
3. Ankita Gaba (@ankitagaba)
4. Srushti Rao (@SrushtiRao)
5. Paromita Deb (@suddentwilight)
6. Moksh Juneja (@mokshjuneja)
7. I forgot one name

Chocolates from Bournville Cadbury:

1. Harish Iyer
2. Annkur Agarwal
3. Vipul from Pune or either Moksh Juneja or Farrhad,  i don’t remember

For being the coolest tweep around (ya right!) Tarun Chandel won a Movie Pass from Wogma and a chance to post his review on Wogma. Thanks to @MeetuMeetu of Wogma.

Siddharth Sinha won a couple pass of HardRock Cafe from @Musicmanmihir for showing his singing talent.

OnlyGizmo is still going to run an auction on Twitter and pass on the auction money to Help A Child.

Wordpress Themes Vouchers from Sandeep Bali

1. Monik Pamecha (@monikkinom)
2. Vishal Gadkari (@VishalGadkari)
3. @ideasmithy

Oh ya it was raining prizes at the Twestival

Huge Thanks to our sponsors:

1. Tata Docomo
2. TheBombayStore
3. Cadbury’s Bournville
4. Shoppers Stop
5. Wogma
6. Musicmanmihir
7. Only Gizmos
8. Sandeep Bali

Warm Hugs to all our Suppoters:

1. dharmeshg - for showing us the venue.
2. Shawn Lewis - for designing twestival tshirt logo
3. @Parthas - Partha Srinivasan who made Tshirt  within 2 days
4. Cafe Goa - for being super cool.

Twip Twip Turray to:

All the attendees, you made the Twestival what it was.

A very special thanks to the Aperitweat for joining hands with the Mumbai Twestival and making it more fun.

- Tonnes of love from all of us Moksh, Monik, Netra, Farrhad, Andrea and Tarun.

Thanks to All those who attended  Twestival and making it a Grand Success.

We had over 100 People attending twestival and charity amount raised was over Rs.40,000 for our cause, Help a Child!

ALong with that, people had great fun over there. Some Games like Twousie (Twitter + Housie) were played. Winners got vouchers from our Sponsors too.

Over All it was an amazing event and also it could be called the biggest twitterati meet ever in Mumbai! For the Photos by some of our Attendees here they are :-

• http://hop.im/iY
• http://hop.im/iZ
• http://hop.im/ja
• http://hop.im/jb
• http://hop.im/jc
• http://hop.im/jn

Thanks Indian Express for suppoting the Mumbai Twestival with a lovely coverage. Special thanks to Dipanita Nath of Indian Express.

Here is the Indian Express coverage of Mumbai Twestival:

It’s that time of the year when members of the micro-blogging site Twitter gather offline to celebrate a special festival called Twestival. “People like us, called Tweeps or Tweeple, finally get to see the faces behind the names we have been following. Total strangers become friends or business associates. The best part of the party is that it is for a cause. The funds collected at these gathering will be sent to local charities,” says Abhishek Baxi, convenor of the Delhi edition.

Twestival turns two this year and India has added to the numbers. Last year, the festival was restricted to Delhi and Mumbai, this time it will be held in Ahmedabad, Pune and Bangalore as well. Globally, the festival can be held on any day between September 10 and 13. “The Delhi party is on Saturday, and the charity we’re supporting is the Khushboo Welfare Society which provides care and support to ‘special’ individuals,” says Ashish Chopra of the Delhi Bloggers and New Media Society which is organising the festival.

You can read rest of the story here…
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/twestival-time/516133/

Thanks Live Mint for suppoting the Mumbai Twestival with a lovely coverage. Special thanks to Saabira Chaudhuri of Live Mint.

Here is the Live Mint coverage of Mumbai Twestival:

Twestival – and no that’s not a typo – this year, takes place from 10-13 September in cities around the world.

If you’re wondering what a Twestival is, the name should offer up a clue: it’s a Twitter festival. People around the world connect online and then meet up offline to raise money or awareness for a cause.

You can read rest of the story here… http://www.livemint.com/2009/08/26104351/Tweeting-for-a-cause.html

Thanks Hindustan Times for suppoting the Mumbai Twestival with a lovely coverage. Special thanks to Sneha Mahale of HT.

Here is the HT coverage of Mumbai Twestival:

A new Twitter-based festival is aiming to help local charities and businesses. Named Twestival, it is described as a Twitter fest that will happen around the world next weekend from September 10-13. The motive behind the festival is to encourage people to shop at their favourite businesses, donate to a local charity, and let everyone know about the cause.

The festival concept came about in September last year, when a group of London Twitter users decided to host an event called the Harvest Twestival. The fest was sponsored entirely by tweeters (as Twitter users are referred to). Via this network, the group was able to raise money and canned food for a London based non-profit organisation called The Connection.

You can read rest of the story here… http://www.hindustantimes.com/News/kidszone/Twestival-comes-to-Mumbai/Article1-450140.aspx

Hey, all Thanks to everyone for attending Twestival Mumbai! Well, just when 2 hours were left for Twestival, Our Friend Sandeep Bali (@sandeepbali) decided to give away free 3 Wordpress themes Worth $35 each to Fellow Tweeple attending to the event!

Thanks You Sandeep So Much for the Awesome Gift