Yes, that’s right - thanks to our friends at St Austell Brewery we’ve got a free case (six bottles) of Banrock Station Sparkling Shiraz to give away to one lucky Cornwall Twestival attendee.

This south-east Australian sparkling red is “rich in colour with an intense bouquet of sweet cassis and a spectrum of fruit flavours“. Sounds tempting? Simply buy your Cornwall Twestival ticket before midnight tonight (Thursday 18th March 2010) and we’ll enter you into a prize draw to win the wine!

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Good luck!

Terms and conditions

1) One case of six bottles of wine will be awarded to the first name drawn out of a hat at the Cornwall Twestival event on Thursday March 25th 2010 at Vertigo, Truro. The draw will take place at or around 11pm.

2) All those who have purchased a ticket to Cornwall Twestival before midnight on Thursday 18th March 2010 will be automatically entered into the draw, except where restrictions apply (see points 3-5 below).

3) Only ticket purchasers over the age of 18 will be eligible to enter.

4) Holders of free tickets will not be eligible to enter.

5) Members of the Twestival Cornwall organising committee will not be eligible to enter, nor members of their immediate family.

6) The winner will be notified at the event if they are present at the time of the draw, and if not by phone or email within 24 hours of the draw.

7) The winner consents to being photographed with their prize by the Cornwall Twestival official photographer, Paul Richards of PR 4 Photos, for use in subsequent press and promotional activity for Cornwall Twestival.

We’re delighted to welcome back Tonick Media, returning sponsor for Cornwall Twestival Global 2010.

Tonick Media is a media and marketing agency based in the heart of Cornwall, where a digital and creative centre of excellence is emerging. We help businesses and organisations of all sizes make the most of their traditional media and marketing campaigns as well as Social Media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Wordpress.

Started in 2005 by husband and wife team, Nick and Toni Eyriey, Tonick is publisher of the only dedicated business magazine in the county, Business Cornwall. In 2009, the company reenergised and turned attention towards providing a broader media service. It now works with clients throughout Cornwall and wider afield to develop compelling and engaging media and marketing campaigns across a range of traditional and new media.

You can follow Tonick Media founder Nick Eyriey on Twitter at @nickeyriey, and marketing director Aren Grimshaw at @arengrimshaw. You can also stay up to date with the latest news from Business Cornwall by following @biz_cornwall.

Yes, one lucky Cornwall Twestival attendee will walk away with a shiny new Pogoplug, thanks to the generosity of Pogoplug and its PR agency, Escherman.

A brand new gadget on the UK market, this stylish device lets you share the content of your USB drives easily and quickly over the internet. You can use it to share photos with friends or access your home-based files from anywhere you can get online.

Pogoplug retails at £99 and has been garnering some excellent press coverage in the past couple of weeks. Channel 5’s Gadget Show loved it, saying it “makes sharing a cinch“, while Freelance Advisor said it “makes working away from home easier, less stressful, and more fun.”

Pogoplug is just one of a number of great prizes up for grabs at Cornwall Twestival Global 2010. Don’t miss your chance to win - book your £10 ticket today!

A very warm welcome and a big thank you to a new Cornwall Twestival sponsor, Fluid Branding.

Fluid Branding are the South West’s leading supplier of Promotional Products, Corporate Gifts and Branded Merchandise. With a massive range of promotional products combined with market leading customer service, Fluid Branding and their dedicated environmental brand Eco Incentives are perfectly placed to provide you with imaginative, low cost corporate gifts and branded promotional merchandise.

Take a look at www.fluidbranding.com or www.ecoincentives.com and see for yourself how you can use branded merchandise to add real impact to your marketing campaigns.

You can follow Fluid Branding on Twitter at @fluidbranding.

A very warm welcome back to another returning sponsor - Niddocks Internet Marketing, who have been strong supporters of Cornwall Twestival since its inception in early 2009.

Niddocks is an internet marketing company focusing on providing cost-effective web marketing solutions for small, medium and large organisations throughout Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Services include SEO, Google AdWords, Google Analytics, training, management and consultancy.

Find out more about Niddocks from their website www.niddocks.com, or follow Niddocks founders @robedlin and @andreaedlin on Twitter.

A very warm welcome to NetInsight, who have generously offered to sponsor Cornwall Twestival Global 2010.

NetInsight is a full-service web design agency specialising in e-commerce. NetInsight also offer e-business consultancy and conversion rate optimisation; a recently developed service which turns more website visitors into customers without spending more on digital marketing. NetInsight’s mission is to help businesses to improve the profitability of their websites through careful planning, great design and thorough development practices.

Why Twestival?

NetInsight is keen to support an event which raises both the awareness of global poverty and the importance of education. To see the potential for social media as a beneficial tool to those less fortunate than most is encouraging. It will enable Twitter and other social media to become relevant in all aspects of life and therefore to remain valuable.

An ever increasing number of people are communicating online, and utilising Twitter is fast becoming a must for business today. We are keen to be involved in this evolution of online marketing and to help businesses further develop social media as a means of communication with their customers.

You can follow NetInsight on Twitter at @NetInsight.

We’re very excited to announce today that top Cornish indie rock band The Hitchcock Rules are confirmed to play at Cornwall Twestival Global 2010 on Thursday 25th March at Truro’s Vertigo Bar.

A self-styled “indie, rock, pop melting pot” whose 2008 album For My Monster was described by the RouteNote blog as a “fast-paced, stomping, pop-tastic, sing-along chorus-fest”, Perranporth-based The Hitchcock Rules have built up a large and loyal fan following since their foundation in 2004.

Cornwall’s Stranger Mag recently hailed The Hitchcock Rules as “a Cornish band to look out for. They are bound to get on and adorn student walls across the country.” Don’t miss this chance to see them play live at Twestival!

The Hitchcock Rules join an outstanding Twestival line-up showcasing some of the best of Cornish musical talent. Also playing on March 25th are:

Jessica Sweetman: Twenty year-old Jessica is a singer-songwriter from Looe who is already being mentioned in the same breath as Duffy, Katie Melua, Pixie Lott and Norah Jones. But Jessica is rapidly establishing her own reputation with a string of original songs including the sensational When It Comes To Love. With girl-next-door appeal and a distinctive, purring voice, Jessica is well on her way to earning a place among the A-listers*.

Sam Powell: Truro’s Sam Powell is a singer-songwriter whose folk-inflected songs, accompanied by acoustic guitar, have been described as “dark, atmospheric, and most strikingly beautiful”. Sam is currently making an EP with Squareball Records, due out in March 2010.

Sophie Stokes: Headlining at Twestival Global 2010 after a very well-received set at Cornwall Twestival Local last year, Sophie’s soulful vocals –which have been compared favourably with those of Devon superstar Joss Stone – will provide a perfect climax to the evening. Sophie is currently recording her first EP with OGS Media which will be launched very soon.

Get your ticket - before it’s too late!
This is an outstanding opportunity to see the cream of Cornwall’s musical talent ‘before they were famous’, for a ticket price of just £10.00. Don’t miss out – buy your Twestival ticket today!

About Cornwall Twestival Global 2010
Taking place from 7pm-1am on March 25th, Cornwall Twestival Global is a real-world party where Twitter users and social media fans can meet up offline at Truro’s buzzy and popular Vertigo Bar, put faces to names and enjoy an evening of live music and other entertainments.

Every penny raised from ticket sales and other fundraising activities at the event will go to Concern Worldwide, an international humanitarian organisation dedicated to reducing suffering and ending extreme poverty. The money will go towards educational initiatives in some of the poorest parts of the world.

Welcome back to Radix Communications, one of several returning sponsors for Cornwall Twestival 2010.

Penryn-based Radix provides specialist copywriting, translation and design services to IT-industry clients across Europe and beyond. Radix works with companies such as CA, Compuware, Pitney Bowes Business Insight and Oracle to produce everything from brochures and event invitations to newsletters, video scripts and opinion articles.

Radix is happy to be sponsoring Cornwall Twestival for a second time, and to see the sponsorship money go towards helping some of the world’s poorest children into education - improving their health, life expectancy and life opportunities.

You can follow Radix MD and Twestival co-organiser Fiona Campbell-Howes on Twitter at @patroclus.

The Cornwall Twestival Global 2010 team would like to officially welcome our three media sponsors: Pirate FM, Business Cornwall and thisiscornwall.co.uk.

Pirate FM is the popular commercial radio station for Cornwall, Plymouth and West Devon. Playing more music, they are family orientated, entertaining and love getting involved in a huge number of community events right across the area. Pirate FM is passionate about social media, has a long-term, loyal audience and in April will celebrate 18 successful years serving the region.

Follow Pirate FM on Twitter at @piratefm.

Business Cornwall is the only dedicated business magazine in Cornwall. Both a monthly print magazine and an interactive website for the county’s business community, Business Cornwall is published by Tonick Media, a media and marketing agency based in the heart of Cornwall, where a digital centre of excellence is emerging. Business Cornwall enjoys a very close relationship with Cornwall’s burgeoning social media community and is a natural media sponsor for Cornwall Twestival.

Follow Business Cornwall on Twitter at @biz_cornwall.

Thisis cornwall.co.uk is the website for the West Briton, Cornish Guardian and Cornishman newspapers. It’s the largest and best read news website for Cornwall, attracting over 2 million page views every month. At the heart of all things local, thisiscornwall.co.uk boasts nurtured hyperlocal sites for most towns and cities in the region and keeps its readers updated with breaking news not just on the website, but also via Facebook and of course Twitter. Thisiscornwall.co.uk is a proud sponsor of Twestival Global.

Follow thisiscornwall.co.uk on Twitter at @thisiscornwall.

We’re pleased to welcome our third sponsor for Cornwall Twestival Global 2010, University College Falmouth.

University College Falmouth has a reputation across the art, design, media and performance industries locally, nationally and internationally as a place to find innovation and the industry stars of the future. Whether in major competitions, or for employment, its students are highly sought after and successful in their chosen pursuits.

“Study media at University College Falmouth and you’ll join a long line of success,” said Paul Inman, Director of the School of Media. “The media industries have a notoriously voracious appetite for innovative creative ideas and our graduates learn how to stand out from the crowd.”

You can follow UCF on Twitter at @UCFalmouth or Paul Inman at @pinman.