tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post8467366601594177967..comments2024-03-20T10:01:20.599+00:00Comments on Dave Gorman: A Few Words About Twitter And CharityDave Gormanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02260701102207639816noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-60109477172008999982010-11-22T09:58:49.973+00:002010-11-22T09:58:49.973+00:00hear hear.
cannot agree with you more dave. i wor...hear hear.<br /><br />cannot agree with you more dave. i work for a charity (Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research) and we make a point of only tweeting the celebs we have a relationship with.<br /><br />It's such a bad idea to scattergun messages - it's not helpful and it's annoying too.Serenahttp://serenasnoad.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-3612130084869892492010-08-24T22:02:08.992+01:002010-08-24T22:02:08.992+01:00Thanks Graham. As it goes this wasn't written ...Thanks Graham. As it goes this wasn't written as a reaction to the exchange you saw on Twitter - that was actually a very jolly, friendly exchange that resolved itself quite nicely.<br /><br />It's more the requests for retweets of charitable endeavours that are difficult to deal with. They tug at the heartstrings and 140 characters is inadequate for a reply.<br /><br />When someone tweets you saying <i>"My husband/wife/parent/child suffers from X so I'm doing Y, please RT"</i> what is an adequate response? <br /><br />Sympathy for their personal situation doesn't make it the right thing to do. I can't value one stranger's husband/wife/parent/child more than (or less than) another... <br /><br />It's absolutely right that people campaign for causes that affect them personally, in an abstract sense, if you were to dispassionately line up every cause in some kind of order of deservingness, the one at the top wouldn't necessarily have someone directly affected and with a twitter account to champion it. Not necessarily. But then maybe it would.<br /><br />If you retweet them all you end up achieving nothing for any of them.<br /><br />If you can't be of use to all of them, you have to reject some.<br /><br />If you have to reject some, what criteria do you use?<br /><br />There is no way of evaluating every such request. Choosing some but not others would involve making value judgements that are just too uncomfortable... so I do what we all do. I promote those cause that touch and move <i>me</i>.Dave Gormanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02260701102207639816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-4722620978168819442010-08-21T11:54:33.840+01:002010-08-21T11:54:33.840+01:00I thought that tweet was from a guy called Dave wh...I thought that tweet was from a guy called Dave who feels strongly about it - and not a celeb wanting to look good.Graham the Funky Aardvarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05884635270441912132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-8962574903113523112010-08-20T11:06:16.851+01:002010-08-20T11:06:16.851+01:00The charity/celebrity retweet is something I great...The charity/celebrity retweet is something I greatly dislike. It was a neat initiative at first, but too many people are all over it now.<br /><br />Worse is the implication that ignoring their appeals makes the most-followed Twitter users look like a collective bunch of arseholes, when they're quite clearly not. There's a resentful emotional blackmail that comes with this use of Twitter and I'm hoping it eventually dies out. <br /><br />Sorry if that comes across as cold and heartless, I do think some causes are fantastic and I'm all for charity awareness. But there are better was of marketing your cause.James Farrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02282542362120126318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-37384086450838166592010-08-20T10:16:48.056+01:002010-08-20T10:16:48.056+01:00I think that is an excellent policy!
Have texted ...I think that is an excellent policy!<br /><br />Have texted them, and also retweeted your DEC appeal and also popped in of Facebook where one of my friends texted to donate, so because of this post the appeal is £10 up!Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17127674350134265637noreply@blogger.com