Food Lawyer Gives $25,000 for 25,000 Twitter followers
Apr 20th, 2009 | By Rex Gradeless | Category: Featured, Lead Article, Social Media, Twitter
Ever want to make a lawyer pay? Now you can spend $25,000 of a lawyer’s money (for charity)!!
World famous food poisoning lawyer, Bill Marler (@BMarler), will donate $25,000 to a charity if he receives 25,000 followers on Twitter by the end of the month!
Bill is known for keeping your food clean. Bill focuses most of his practice on representing individuals, mostly children, in litigation resulting from E. coli, Salmonella, Shigella, hepatitis A, and other food-contamination cases, and has represented victims of nearly every large foodborne illness outbreak across the country.
IF YOU FOLLOW BILL ON TWITTER, AND HE REACHES 25,000 FOLLOWERS BY THE END OF THE MONTH, HE WILL DONATE $25,000!
FOLLOW BILL HERE – https://twitter.com/BMarler
(then send him a direct message and tell him we sent you!)
Also, send him a message about what charity he should donate to. Here is Bill Marler’s original post:
Ashton Kutcher Gets 1M Followers on Twitter For 10,000 Bed Nets to Fight Malaria in Africa – Great Charity – I’ll give $25,000 to Charity for 25,000 Followers – What Charity?
The battle to become the owner of the first Twitter account that has 1 million followers has ended. It was a clash between the old TV, represented now by CNNbrk (CNN breaking news), and the new kid on the block Ashton Kutcher. Ashton Kutcher won the battle to become the first Twitter millionaire. Is that the anti-Slumdog?
OK, I am not looking for 1M followers – just 25,000 more than the 1,650 I have today. So, I if I get 25,000 followers by the end of the month, I’ll donate $25,000 to the best charity twitter folks come up with.
Updates:
About 11 hours after this post, the ABA Journal published the same story on their blog here.
Twitter user @cruiselaw adds $5,000. CHARITY NOW AT $30,000 for 25K followers!
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I am sorry, but I don’t see where this is anything close to what twitter is for. What advantage is it to the one trying to get all of these followers other than an ego trip.
Lets all go out and bribe the twitterverse so we can get a truck load of followers and have high numbers.
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admin
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April 20th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
I thought it was for charity. Also, users can unfollow (at anytime) after the charity is over.
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Kimberly
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April 23rd, 2009 at 8:49 pm
What’s it for? Ego?? What’s wrong with you for asking that??!! This man is going to GIVE money to CHARITY if he gets X number of followers. It’s a new and fresh trend getting different groups to work towards charity giving goals by using twitter. I think it’s fab!
Have you ever paid for a car wash that was for charity? Or bought cookies, candy, popcorn, or raffle tickets for charity? This time no one’s asking for money. All he’s asking is that people click one button and that’s it! If you don’t want to do it, then don’t. It won’t change your twitter experience at all! But why do you think that your idea of what twitter is for is the real reason? I think twitter was set up as a social experience and that’s exactly what he’s using it for. He gets to meet and tweet with 25,000 new people and then the best part is that some lucky charity gets $25,000. I think it’s wonderful!
It is so hard to raise money for charity. If you’d ever done anything like that, you’d know what a gift this is. This man is giving his own money for NOTHING in return. This money may end up feeding families, giving shelter to homeless people or animals, you have no idea what it will do and the good it will create. Have you given $25k to charity this month??
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Not for ego – really – I just thought it would be an interesting experiment following up on the Demi boy and CNN match. Ideas for a charity most welcome. Cheers.
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Lloyd Goowin
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April 23rd, 2009 at 8:12 pm
How about St. Judes Hospital? http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=f2bfab46cb118010VgnVCM1000000e2015acRCRD
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Good man. Great idea.
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I just checked your twitter, looks great! Also, this is a great charity idea!
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Here are a few ideas for you.. Instead of running this campaign.. try using Twitter how it was intended to be used for.. engage with people, add value to others, share info, resources, info, knowledge, ideas, opinions, and then communicate with people, demonstrate your knowledge and credibilty, and promote yourself.. If people value you, they will follow you.. simple as that..Oh and have fun as well…. there are also some great tools that you can use to help you to search for people, search on keywords, and to see what is trending at the moment…
What you will also find is that by doing it this way, people wont unfollow you, as they will be interested in what you have to say, and you can still dontate the money to charity…
Hope that helps
best
Mark Shaw
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admin
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April 21st, 2009 at 4:24 pm
I disagree. People can use Twitter for whatever they want. There is no authority on this. Not you. Not me. Not anyone. This is sort of the purpose of social media to begin with.
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Rozonda
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April 25th, 2009 at 8:37 am
You know Mr. Shaw …when people start telling me what I should use Twitter, Facebook or whatever for, I instantly develop a deep antipathy for that person and their advice. And I know many people are like me. Keep giving that cheap advice and you’ll discourage many people from using social media. Internet is a free place, and that’s why there are so many bright ideas in it. Like this one.
Good for you, Mr Marler, I will certain follow you.
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Man these twitter contests are all the rave these days huh? On another note: social media + student + blog?? Awesome!
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Being ex-oxfam fundraiser a decade ago – it was hard then fundraising – as others on this string have mentioned its a grand gesture and charities and not-for-profits are finding it really, really hard to meet budgets now. Social media tools will form a new spanner in the fundraisers kit for communicating what agencies are doing; how they are doing it; what help they need and will help raise funds/connect with benefactors….Twitter is not just for letting the world know you had two sugars in your coffee this morning :p – yes it can clearly bring about change used correctly…nice one Tweeple.
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