On Friday March 11th, the north-east of Japan was hit by a series of earthquakes. As a result, a tsunami was formed that killed over more than thousand people.
Even though I only follow about 25 people on Twitter, I immediately noticed some tweets about Japan. These tweets consisted the question to retweet or send a text message and (for example) 10 Dollars would be donated to Japan.
I believe this to be a fantastic example of good things Twitter can do! The initiative was taken by RedCross (http://bit.ly/ePZd2e). The benefits of using social media to raise money is firstly the amount of people reached. Secondly, it is much easier than to fill in an application to donate money. Just retweet and you practically donated 1 Dollar! Imagine if every Twitter user would do this...
Here are the tweets, of you haven’t got them, please retweet them now!
Red Cross
Text REDCROSS to 90999 to donate 10 Dollars to @redcross for Japan
Will donate $1 to redcross.org for every person who RT this MSG #japan #prayforjapan #tsunami or text REDCROSS 90999 $10
Twibbon
Support #japan , add a #twibbon now! – http://twb.ly/1AIDHs - Create one here – http://twb.ly/f02AU3
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