Twitter Used As Charity Fundraising Tool, Sets Record

Yesterday (Sep. 28th), Mashable reached out their Twitter followers to ask for donations to Charity:Water, a project that builds wells in Ethiopia to give people clean drinking water.
They raised $4,573, enough to build a well that’s capable of supplying 200 people with water for 20 years.
If you subtract that from $4,294,856, the value of all the man-hours wasted by employees who were on Twitter at work yesterday, Twitter’s net impact on the GDP was only -$4,290,283, a record best for the microblog service.
Tiny commentary: Keep up the good work Twitterers!

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