Twittering for The Children
Yesterday I received this email from one of our Dutch Twitter fans.
Biz,Today, Michiel emailed to tell me they managed to purchase 21 laptops through laptop.org. Well Merry Christmas then! Good work.
This morning, dutch journalist and TV presenter Francisco van Jole (@2525) asked if the dutch twitterazi did anything for the OLPC project. I responded by suggesting we'd have a fund raising day today; every tweet with the term 'olpc' in it would count as one euro sponsorship money. Since such laptops cost about 140 euro's, @2525 said he would buy one if we'd reach 140 tweets with 'olpc' by midnight tonight.
5 Comments:
That is so sweet. Very nice thought, and outcome!
The "One laptop per Child" is one of the noblest, most far-reaching projects I've ever seen. Let's hope it thrives.. And reaches it's goal!
Bill Burke
http://www.phoneportals.com
Admit it, Biz, when you started Twitter you had no clue it would be used so much for social good :-) The law of unintended consequences works in our favor sometimes.
That's nice... a good cause while augmenting the traffic on the site. Everybody wins... OLPC!
-Leo
http://blog.myboulton.com
Your good deed for Christmas! Wow! :)
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