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Ben & Jerry’s say donate your spare Twitter characters to a good cause
Howard Lake | 6 May 2011 | News
Put your unused Twitter characters to good use, says Ben & Jerry’s.
Their clever take on donating your spare change to a good cause is helping to spread the word about fair trade.
“Every day, millions of Twitter characters go unused”, says their campaign website. “That’s not very fair. But now you can tweet as you normally would, and we’ll turn any leftover characters into a message about Fair Trade. Now that’s fair.”
They’ve built a Twitter application to add a message and link about World Fair Trade Day (14 May) in the remaining character spaces of one’s tweets.
Here’s my Tweet:
I’m donating mine: I’m putting my unused Twitter characters to good use, to raise awareness for #FairTrade. #FairTweets http://t.co/Co0kknh
Howard Lake
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.