With proceeds counted from about two-thirds of its approximately 175 venues, organizers of Twestival — the fund-raising event for users of the social-networking site Twitter — announced that the February 12 gatherings have so far raised $250,000 for its beneficiary, Charity: Water, the Guardian, in London, reports on its PDA blog.

Money raised from the first worldwide gathering of Twitter users will pay for safe drinking water for about 17,000 people in Africa and India, Twestival co-organizer Amanda Rose said. While noting that the event fell well short of its ambitious $1-million goal, Ms. Rose said the Twitter campaign “does not end here.”