Yesterday the famous dragon @DuncanBannatyne posted out the below tweet… what a reaction so far!

In the last 24 hours it has gone a bit nuts and it is a trending topic in the UK. This initiative has been supported by every1followme, who is trying to raise money for charity via sponsorship. A brief explanation to why…

I felt this could be a good exercise to raise money for charity & do good for the world, on the 28th of Jan 2010, I created a twitter list called ‘sponsored by‘ allowing corporate companies to sponsor me & get added to the list forever, this is very valuable to companies etc as the list is featured on this website & my twitter page & all tweets from these companies are shown on the list, all money raised from sponsors will be given to a charity or a number of charities. After I complete my goal gain 1 million followers, we will have a vote & you will decide the charity, not me! I think that’s the right thing to do, it ensures that my task does good for humanity aswell as someone winning the $5000

An idea that really harnesses an attitude of Twitter users… we have #FollowFriday, which sees users sending out tweets to encourage their followers to follow other worthy users. Without taking anything away from this initiative as it is for a good cause, it does highlight a specific social need held by many. The need to be popular. The more people that follow you the more your opinion matters. This ties very much into my last post about STATUSPHERE, particularly connectivity.