More about the Frozen Pea Fund, a spontaneous community on Twitter that created itself in days to support a woman recently diagnosed with breast cancer. Twitter is a social media site that is much more powerful than it looks, and many of its users connect it to their blogging. This is from a comment to my Washington Post story that speaks volumes about how it all works, at least in the eyes of one Twitterite:
Twitter is the kind of community you wish you lived in offline. Where you can choose your neighbors, and those neighbors are informed, insightful, caring, and supportive.
That's the argument, anyway. But Municipalist watched very nice things happen through this type of lighting-fast community creation, including raising actual dollars for the American Cancer Society. Now, another similar effort is underway.
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