Twitter Users Now Breaking Virtual Boundries with Real World "Tweetups"

With the meteoric rise of Twitter, it was only a matter of time before its dedicated users grew the desire to meet in person the "tweeps" they so fondly interact with on a daily basis - and so was born the "tweetup"

A tweetup is defined as "A real world meeting between two or more people who know each other through the online Twitter service." Recently, Twitter community organizers have been taking the idea to the extreme, hosting a series of "twestivals" in various cities.

A Twestival or Twitter-Festival is a global series of events organized by volunteers around the world under short timescales, which bring people offline for a great cause. Twestival is run 100% by volunteers and independently from any not-for-profit; although the organizing teams do work closely to outline an achievable and measurable fundraising target. Twestival also sets out to identify key skills of volunteers and match these with the needs of the cause; particularly communications strategy, tech integration and social media training.

Twestival Local takes place in cities around the world during September 10-13, 2009. LA has their own Twestival event taking place this Sunday at Level 3 at Hollywood at Highland! Come out and show your support to these two amazing local organizations:

• CHRYSALIS is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping economically disadvantaged and homeless individuals become self-sufficient through employment opportunities. It currently helps more than 2,000 individuals a year change their lives through jobs.
  
  
• LA Regional Foodbank's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our LA Community. Each dollar received by the food bank can actually provide four complete meals to those in need.

The event will include a music from Dr. Hollywood, comedy from Ben Gleib (from Chelsea Lately), Ben Morrison (from Punk'd), and much, much more. Come out and join this amazing event, organized on Twitter, and supporting two amazing causes. For more information, please see LATwestival.com