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Raising money for Twitter.

Going where VCs have yet to succeed.

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• Your £2/$5 can make Twitter better

  Do you use Twitter? Do you want to improve it?

  Do the words, "Something is technically wrong" get you down?

  If everyone who uses Twitter donates £2 or $5 each (or more), it can get better for everyone. Go on. Tweet yourself right.

• twitter.com/funding

• Twitter's current status

  • SMS problems with Sprint users
  • Facebook app offline
  • Search Restored
  • Search downtime
  • Search behind realtime

Is Plurk a Twitter killer, or is it Apple’s WWDC and the Stevenote?

Are dark clouds hovering over Twitter towers? Will Twitter’s 2nd birthday (two years old already?!) in a few weeks time mark the beginning of the end? Let’s hope not.

Yes - there’s been a recent influx of VC cash, but it comes hot on the heels of some of Twitter’s worst downtime in a while.

Coupled with that, Plurk seems to be picking up a lot of support (especially now you can import all your Twitter pals), Friendfeed’s addition of rooms has made it much more user-friendly, and tomorrow’s Stevenote at Apple’s WWDC will test Twitter’s hardware like nothing ever before.

I want it to work. I want Twitter to be faultless tomorrow. But if it doesn’t, and let’s face it - it might not - I’d like Twitter to very quickly sort out it’s business model (voluntary donations perhaps? At least to avoid ads?) to keep it’s avid users tweeting away for years (and not just days) to come.

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• What is the Twitterfund?

  

• Twitter is fantastic. Let’s get that straight. It’s addictive, useful and fun.

  But it’s also highly tempremental. Sometimes it just doesn’t work. Which does no-one any favours.

  Following an original tweet from @zeroinfluencer I decided to do something about it.

  The challenge: to try and raise Twitter some money. By asking people who use it to make a small donation.

  On 1 September 2008 I’m going to hand whatever this site has raised over to Twitter.

  So please do contribute. And ask your friends to, too.

  Who knows whether or not we can have the same influence as the VCs (or the same amount of cash), but I hope we can influence the way Twitter develops for the better.

• Some smallprint

  I am nothing to do with Twitter. I just like it. I promise to keep any money donated safe (or rather PayPal will) until I hand it over in September.

  You'll just have to trust me.

  But if anyone knows any proper legal reasons why I shouldn't be doing this - please let me know, and I'll stop.

• Tweets about the Twitterfund

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