‘Twas’ a pleasure to head down to Doon on Trafalgar Square last night for the inaugural Harvest Twestival – only fair as we were helping to pay for the drinks.

It was great to have the opportunity to meet the faces behind the avatars – some better looking in real life…some not…we came bearing Fray Bentos’ finest and a whole hamper of kidney beans, but were overwhelmed with the generosity of the Tweeple of London.

It was also great to see the buzz that the event created through the community with ‘Twestival’ making the Twitter trend terms blog roundup right up there with Obama and McCain. As Mike Butcher outlines in his TechCrunch article on the event, it serves as an interesting example of how an event can generate buzz and even raise some money for charity, simply by bringing likeminded people who are part of an online community together in the real world.

Well done to the Twestival team including Tim Hoang (@timhoang) Ben Matthews (@benrmatthews) Amanda Rose (@amandita) Renate Nyborg (@renatenyborg) and Diffusion’s very own Tom Malcolm (@tommalcolm) for making the event a success!

We’re looking forward to sponsoring the next one and hope the ‘raffle’ won’t be rigged in Ben Matthew’s favour again!