Twitter friends raise cash for heart transplant - PC World
June 1, 2009
It's easy to mock the banality and self-regard of the average Twitter user (and fun, too), but the Twitterati can be surprisingly altruistic when the occasion calls for it. And when there's a celebrity or two involved.
Trent Reznor, of the rock band Nine Inch Nails, used his Twitter account (followers: 577,437) to publicize the case of Eric De La Cruz, a Nevada resident who needs a heart transplant and can't get medical insurance because of a pre-existing condition. Reznor (together with another band, Jane's Addiction) also offered VIP tickets to concerts in return for donations to the cause...
It's easy to mock the banality and self-regard of the average Twitter user (and fun, too), but the Twitterati can be surprisingly altruistic when the occasion calls for it. And when there's a celebrity or two involved.
Trent Reznor, of the rock band Nine Inch Nails, used his Twitter account (followers: 577,437) to publicize the case of Eric De La Cruz, a Nevada resident who needs a heart transplant and can't get medical insurance because of a pre-existing condition. Reznor (together with another band, Jane's Addiction) also offered VIP tickets to concerts in return for donations to the cause...
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