Using the Right Words when it Comes to Twestivals

Twitter doesn’t allow me enough space to even begin to start with this one. First of all lets go down the list on a few terms here.

Twestival – A event held by a city using twitter to organize it and come together for the good of a charity.
SFTwestival – The actual City that is having a Twestival, in this example San Francisco.
DNALounge – Venue in SF that claims to have lost money due to SFTwestival

Twestival is a the main organization, they setup and provide space for cities to have their own blogs to post information to they also initially had the idea for Twestivals. DNALounge is having a dispute with SFTwestival over the venue and mixups. Everyone should be clear in their tweets that this is not Twestival as a whole or any other cities fault. The use of Twestival in general and tweets such as “Twestival Sucks” or “F#$% Twestival” only hurt other cities and a lot of really good charities.

Make sure if you are tweeting things about these disputes that you use the right names when you tweet so you don’t do damage to these other cities that have worked very hard to try to raise as much money as possible for their areas.

If DNALounge wanted Twestival to mediate a discussion between them and the San Francisco team then they should of asked them to and also made to sure to have their facts straight from the get go. The amount of negative tweets that went around may have already done damage due to not actually understanding the whole situation before getting everyone riled up.

I am not saying either side is definitely right or that I am siding with either one. I am saying make sure to think about what you are saying and how it effects other people before putting it out there.