Twitter for Good: Change the World One Tweet at a Time

Introduction

We live in a world where more individuals have access to mobile phones than to clean water. It is this truth that shapes the greatest challenge of our age: How can technology solve today's most complex problems? How can we feed children, lift communities out of poverty, and create lasting, sustainable, positive global change with the high-powered technological tools at hand? The answer lies in the individual.

One criticism of Twitter is that its emphasis on the power of the individual does not effectively lend itself to wide-scale social change. Outright critics like Malcolm Gladwell contend that any one actor on an open-sourced information network has little ability to make a difference in the greater world. Reluctant adopters ...