Hey Brother, Can You Spare a Tweet?

Posted by Gabe on February 22, 2011 under Kids are Heroes, Non-Profits, Twitter | 12 Comments to Read

A Twitter colleague, @DabneyPorte, sent me a link just yesterday. It is a new (at least to me) website strictly for non-profits. It’s called JustCoz and it is a “tweet donating” service. The address is justcoz.org. The concept is that non-profits register themselves and then ask their Twitter followers to donate one tweet per day. Once the charity supporters have granted permission through the site, the non-profit can broadcast through JustCoz and the tweet will go directly into every supporter’s Twitter stream. This can happen at most once every 24 hours.

Here’s how it works. You pick a charity, let’s say for example Kids Are Heroes. You simply go to our page at justcoz.org/kidsareheroes and click on the button that says “Donate a Tweet a day“. It will validate you through your Twitter profile and you are done. You can opt out at any time, but if you support us we would be extremely grateful. To further explain, if you sign up for this, JustCoz will send one tweet created by me in your Twitter stream once a day.  I cannot do this more than once every 24 hours. To opt out, go to http://justcoz.org/kidsareheroes and click on Stop Supporting, or Revoke Access to JustCoz altogether in your Twitter connections. I want to be clear on this as a few people didn’t understand exactly what was going on once they signed up for it. This should clarify things.

As it turned out I had seen this floating around Twitter before it was suggested to me, but as usual I am a late adopter and I never “get” things when they first come out. That’s why I’m glad I have Dabney at my side. As of this writing we already have more than a dozen supporters (we just signed up last night) and with our big event coming up in May this will help us create a great buzz about it.

So if you are on Twitter we would humbly ask that you donate a tweet so the smile can be restored on MaryMargaret, the founder of Kids Are Heroes as pictured above. As a matter of fact, you can see in the Comments below that she hates this picture and would rather have a different one posted.  I told her I would do that when we reach 1000 people donating a tweet a day. (Update: We are now over 200 but we still have a ways to go!) The rest is up to you!

UPDATE 03/16/11: To thank everyone who has joined this effort, we offer a free square on our JustCoz Donor Wall. If you have signed up to donate a tweet a day, visit this link to get your square. Thanks!!