The Tweet Heard ‘Round the World…and Around the World Again!
April 15th, 2009 | Posted by ErinSuper-star and super-Tweeter Ashton Kutcher is “tweeting” his heart out for World Malaria Day!
Ashton is rallying his Twitter followers—almost a million strong!—to use the networking platform to raise awareness about malaria and raise funds for life-saving bed nets. He’s already working to get everyone excited about World Malaria Day and do what they can to get the word out, tweet by tweet!
His first malaria-tweet, sent out on April 6, got hundreds of “re-tweets” and put malaria on the Twitter community’s radar. This is a great start for World Malaria Day.
In the latest news, the online community is abuzz with Ashton’s competition with CNN to see who can be the first to attract 1 million followers on Twitter. Kutcher, the #3 top influencer on Twitter, has over 890,000 followers to date while the entire CNN network is up to 940,000.
To make the competition even more interesting—and life-saving—Ashton has vowed to donate 10,000 mosquito bed-nets to at-risk families in Africa on World Malaria Day if he wins the race by April 25. (He’ll also ding-dong-ditch CNN founder Ted Turner’s house in Atlanta!)
Whatever your motivation for helping Ashton reach his goal, follow him on Twitter and help show that one person’s voice (or tweet) can be as powerful as a network giant, and one tweet can help save hundreds of lives!
Tags: April 25th, Malaria No More, Twitter, Twitter War, World Malaria Day
Tags: April 25th, Malaria No More, Twitter, Twitter War, World Malaria Day
Categories:Celebrities, Random, Web Site
April 15th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
First, he promise to “Ding-Dong-Ditch” Ted Turner’s house if he got to a million first. Then, being the generous, social-minded human being that he is, offered to donate 1,000 net beds through Malaria No More. Now, not only will Ashton Kutcher make his donation regardless of the outcome of the race, everyone has a chance to make a difference, even those who don’t use Twitter. A T-Shirt design is available at http://www.cafepress.com/bekajoth and 50% of the profits from every sale will be donated to Malaria No More. If every user purchases one shirt, it will raise at least $2 Million Dollars for a great cause.
April 16th, 2009 at 12:05 am
Add TB to your cause and with TB and malaria both, you will make a strong impact. Cheers!
April 16th, 2009 at 11:01 am
[...] before CNN does. Kutcher’s foundation of choice to furnish the bed nets of course is Malaria No More. [...]
April 16th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
“Ashton has vowed to donate 10,000 mosquito to at-risk families”
– i think you meant “10,000 mosquito _nets_”
keep up the good work
-ken
April 16th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
[...] with CNN to see who can be the first to attract 1 million followers on Twitter. Ashton has vowed to donate 10,000 mosquito nets to at-risk families in Africa on World Malaria Day if he wins the race by April 25. As a result, many people on twitter are [...]
April 17th, 2009 at 12:40 am
Its not always so simple. We africans don’t always want hand outs.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
http://projectdiaspora.org/2009/04/16/celebrity-stunts-of-altruistism-are-killing-livelihoods-in-africa/
This is not ingratitude, the issues are simply more complicated than Mr. Kutcher realizes.
November 13th, 2009 at 9:03 am
oh my god! I am so sorry for all those children and families. Keep up the fantastic work.
NO MAS MALARIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!