500 Twitter Followers: We (Finally) Have a Winner
By Matt McGee on Jun 22, 2008 | comments (7)
A couple alert friends emailed me over the weekend to point out that I now have 500+ followers on Twitter. This normally wouldn’t be worth a blog post, except for that Twitter for charity contest I’ve been having with Jeff Quipp of Search Engine People. Yeah, remember that one?
It’s with great pleasure that I share the image at right, showing my Twitter home page with its 500 followers. w00t! This means that Jeff and I will each donate $250 to the charity of my choice, which is the African Well Fund, a charity started years ago by some friends of mine with the goal of building wells to bring clean water to Africa.
Bonus: Will Scott of Search Influence and Li Evans of Key Relevance also chipped in donations of their own, so the AWF will be getting a total of $800 from our little contest. Nice!
Thanks to all who helped by adding Jeff or me to your Twitter follow list. Special thanks to Shavar Ross (@Shavar) for being my 500th follower!
If you want to follow any of the four Twitterers who are donating money from this contest, here are the links: @jquipp (Jeff), @w2scott (Will), @storyspinner (Li), and @mattmcgee.
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On Jun 22, 2008, Eric Lander said:
Congratulations Matt, and also to the African Well Fund. It’s a great thing what you and Quipp did.
On Jun 22, 2008, David Temple said:
Congrats one and all, it’s great to see these type of contests. I’m in for the next one.
On Jun 22, 2008, Will Scott said:
No offense to Jeff, but I always knew I was backing a winner.
Great job, and great way to highlight a great cause.
Just glad to be able to help out.
All the best,
Will
On Jun 22, 2008, David Mihm said:
Congrats on the win, Matt! Never a doubt in my mind–that guy Quipp had no idea what he was in for
Echoing David Temple, it’s so great to see SEO used for higher purposes
On Jun 24, 2008, Matt McGee said:
Hey – thanks guys. Much appreciated. It was fun, and after almost two months, I can say I’m glad to be on Twitter with you all.
On Jun 26, 2008, Malte Landwehr said:
Did you block spam-followers who follow thousands of people or not? If not, making you donate $800, was probably the first good thing done by a spam-follower ever
On Aug 1, 2009, Beau said:
WoW 500 followers in 2 months. I only got 1100 on my first account in the first week. But nice donation