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Gloucestershire goes Twitter crazy

While the SoGlos.com team first delved into the world of Twitter in 2008, we too were left wondering ‘what exactly is the point?’ and ‘doesn’t Facebook already do this?’ before being tempted to close the door on the Twittersphere forever.

The last few weeks, however, have seen the social networking cum micro-blogging platform take Gloucestershire, the UK and indeed the world by storm – as everyone clambers aboard to answer just ‘what are you doing?’.

You’ll usually find SoGlos.com’s journos glued to their desks writing about glorious Gloucestershire, and the online magazine has already been gathering some followers via http://twitter.com/soglos. But it’s also great to see other early adopters from across the county – including Gloucester City Council, Gloucestershire Tourism and The Cotswold Chef, for example – joining in on the action.

We’re waiting with anticipation to see which Gloucestershire individual, organisation or business is going to start Twittering next.

Cheltenham Festival fever

While we all know it's one of Gloucestershire's largest and most established events, the Cheltenham Festival really has to be seen to be believed as, now into the second day, the streets have been transformed with hopeful betters, opportunist street performers and Sun newspaper-sellers galore who have all turned up hoping to get in on the action.

The betting shops have been packed from dusk til dawn, television blimps can be seen hovering overhead and Cheltenham Racecourse itself is, of course, an absolute hubbub of exhilaration.

So, if you haven't already made it to the world-famous event, check out SoGlos.com's guide to Cheltenham Festival and Gold Cup 2009 - already read by over 10,000 people in the last few days - and place your bets while you still can.