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Raising money for Twitter - day one

It’s day one in the Twitterfund household, and already the guests are starting to enjoy themselves…

Scores on the doors so far - £20 (though more has come in even as I write this). i will try and thank people personally by email or twitter itself but if I don’t get round to it (or if twitter is broken) I apologise.

I’m now gratuitously looking for a bit of link-love. It doesn’t matter whether you’re A-list, B-list, or even ginger-list, even if you haven’t donated, please do spread the twitterfund word. Let’s raise some money for Twitter.

I thank you.

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June 6, 2008 | Filed Under Thanks, Update 

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One Response to “Raising money for Twitter - day one”

  1. Justin Stevens on June 6th, 2008

    I believe the guys at Twitter actually said in the following Scoble interview that they don’t need more money to solve their current scalability issues:

    http://qik.com/video/90546

    7 minutes, 50 seconds in, the notion of money and paying users as a possible solution to the current problems is specifically addressed as being one of the many misconceptions people have surrounding the current issues.

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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.

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