Users of social networking site Twitter met at the New Continental Bar, South Meadow Lane, with wi-fi enabled laptops and mobile phones to muse over a set topic.

The question on everyone’s lips for the Preston tweet-up on Wednesday evening was ‘How can the web can be used in Preston Guild 2012?’.

Ideas included big screens around the city for twitter feeds to be screened on, live feedback during Guild events and free Internet access.

Ruby gem said: “Utilise the radio and LEP to get the older folk involved in web.” And Phpcodemonkey suggested: “Intro taster sessions from the ‘twitterati’ for the uninitiated.”

Another idea was to set up a councillor on the Guild committee with a Twitter account.

Twitter has an estimated 55 million monthly users around the world and famous tweeters include Barack Obama, Britney Spears, Jonathan Ross and Stephen Fry.