Last October Christina Martin (http://twitter.com/christinamartin)wrote a blog (http://christinalouisemartin.blogspot.com/2009/10/please-vote.html) about Isla, a beautiful girl who has Down’s Syndrome and who was in the running to be the face of Kinder chocolate. I retweeted Christina’s messages, and for the month or so a small army of us did our little bit, tweeting about it, and voting daily.
And she won, and today Christina put up a picture of Isla on the box http://twitpic.com/1ndn5s, and she looks so pretty and I was proud to have been involved, in a tiny way, in getting her there. Later in the day Isla’s mum sent me a message thanking me and that was a wonderful feeling.
Sometimes Twitter bands together, and it does it as a baying mob, and it is an ugly, unattractive sight. But last year, in October and November, some people on Twitter made a difference, a show of love, of friendship and of class.It was the thing I am most proud of doing last year and it is the reason I love Twitter.
Right now, I am involved in the fund to raise money for Paul’s appeal (you all know the story by now, there’s a donate button up top on the left, give something if you can) and the donations, the kind words, the retweets and the tweets have been incredible.It reinforced the positive about Twitter, and the positivity about people in general.
