It’s pretty amazing what a hashtag can do. People use them for lots of reasons, whether its to tag the latest trend, to recommend your friends via #followfriday and even occasionally do something really cool with.
Take @drew for example, he was diagnosed with cancer and has been using the hashtag #blamedrewscancer to help raise awareness and money to fight it. Since its inception some 12,000 folks have blamed an astounding 28,000 things on Drew’s cancer. He recently held a 24 blame-o-thon and has raised over $3500 for the LiveStrong foundation. Not bad!
I’ve made a few donations to @drew already, but we want to do something really big for the guy. So I’m happy to announce that lalawag will sponsor the next 500 #blamedrewscancer tweets at $1 a pop. I just ask for your help with one thing.
Some of you may know Los Angeles local Wm. Marc Salsberry lost his brother Robert to cancer last week. And while we’ve never met Robert we want to sponsor these tweets in his honor. So along with your 140 masterpiece, please include the hashtag #robert as well. Your message can be anything really, but here are some ideas of what I’d love to see:
- The Classic: Fire off a classic #blamedrewscancer tweet blamming anything you like
- For @wmmarc: Since Marc has a lot of friends both here in Los Angeles and beyond, share a memory you have of him.
- Something Personal: If you have a personal experience with cancer tell us your thoughts.
Just hashtag it up #robert and #blamedrewscancer so we can track and count up the tweets. Once 500 have been counted lalawag will make the donation to the Livestrong foundation in Robert’s name.
Recent #robert tweets
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