Last September a group of Twitter users got together in 130 cities for a Twestival. In the process they raised over $450k for 135 charities (£3675 from Glasgow) – Not bad for a night of partying and putting faces to Twitter avatars!

This March (the 25th to be precise) sees another Twestival in Glasgow (GTwestival). This year we will be raising money for Concern Worldwide who provide access to education for some of the world’s poorest children. So, save the date and get ready to buy your ticket very, very shortly!

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On Thursday 3rd September 2009 (let’s refer to it as ‘yesterday’), PoLR Ltd made it to the final of the PSYBT Regional Business Award (Glasgow region) and finished as very respectable Runners Up! Read more…

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I started to write this article a while ago and promptly forgot about it so apologies for the slightly out of date start…

I was reading in the Metro the other day how Bear Scotland are planning on using Twitter to send motorists traffic status Tweets during the M8 upgrade. First of all I thought Cool, secondly I thought But wait, how do you get them?Read more…

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There was much interest last month in a report written by a 15 year old boy who was on a work placement with Morgan Stanley in which he claimed that teens do not use twitter. This statement was the catalyst to the start of a debate about who does use twitter? Many people may have taken it for granted that it must have been teens that were using it as Twitter was in the social media group an area which is largely dominated by young people online. Read more…

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When my Fiance told me Lance Armstrong was Twittering from on ‘the Tour’ I was really impressed. ‘Really!?’ I said ‘from the actual tour?’ at my surprise he said ‘errr, yeah…why?’ ‘Well’ I said ’surely it must affect his time if he has to steer with just one hand…’

Sometimes I don’t engage my brain before my mouth engages itself.Read more…

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I heard on the radio this morning that there is a new phone directory service that lets you connect with people via their mobile phone number. The gist on the radio was “what if you forget a number? The you can go to 118800 and get it back”.Read more…

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