# Is it time for fundraisers to take Twitter more seriously?

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/12/05/it-time-fundraisers-take-twitter-more-seriously/
- Published: 2008-12-05T12:42:13+00:00
- Author: Bryan Miller

I must admit that when I first trialled the microblogging service Twitter a couple
of years back, it was at a time when new Web 2.0 things were appearing so fast that
unless an initial bit of play revealed an application for them beyond technical 
interest or geeky chic then I let them pass – and so it was for me with Twitter.

However, over the last year I’ve seen more and more examples of Twitter being used
by nonprofits – and I even got twittered myself (not sure that’s the correct term)
when speaking at the IFC over in Holland earlier this year. So I was wondering, 
perhaps it is time for those fundraisers who have to-date left the tweets to the
early adopters with time on their hands to take twitter seriously as a potential
addition to their digital toolkit?

[Click here to read on at Giving in a Digital World…](http://givinginadigitalworld.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/is-it-time-for-fundraisers-to-take-twitter-more-seriously/)

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