Charitweet is a new platform that is facilitating small donations to any charity on Twitter. Twitter users simply create a new tweet that has the USD amount they want to send (using Twitter’s $ tag), along with an @ tag for the charity and Charitweet’s own Twitter handle — @CHRTWT.
As much as we’re loathe to admit, it’s likely that the data overload of the internet is re-hardwiring our brains and giving us shorter attention spans. While that’s good news for cat videomakers and clickbait merchants, it’s not great for the people and causes we should really be paying attention to. We’ve previously covered ChangeTip, which offers an easy and quick way to send Bitcoin to worthy content creators via a tweet. Now using similar technology, Charitweet is facilitating small donations to any charity on Twitter through a quick tweet or RT. Sending money through the service is fairly easy. Twitter users simply create a new tweet that has the USD amount they want to send(using Twitter’s $ tag), along with an @ tag for the charity and Charitweet’s own Twitter handle — @CHRTWT.