How To Get People To Pay To Read Tweets: Make It For A Cause -
A Swedish charity is claiming a first after setting up a paywall on Twitter in which people pay to read Tweets from some of the country’s celebrities.
Author Susanna Alakoski, pop singer Niklas Strömstedt, music journalist Fredrik Strage, director and actor Felix Tobias Herngren and television host Gry Forssell are among 15 noted Swedes who have spent the past week Tweeting for Stockholms Stadsmission, a charity that focuses on homelessness in the Swedish capital. More than 500 people have forked over the equivalent of $4 U.S. to follow the celebrities in the fundraiser, which ends Wednesday.
“Swedish summers are famous for a lot of things, midnight sun, skinny dipping, odd midsummer parties, rain throughout July, and mosquitos. Millions of mosquitos. They’ll eat you alive.” — Adland (featuring The Mosquito Report, a campaign from my agency)
(Source: adland.tv)
Stumbled upon a story telling experiment involving Twitter, Tim Burton and Stain Boy. Of course I had to enter.
The challenge was to continue a story based on this tweet:
Part 1 “Stainboy, using his obvious expertise, was called in to investigate mysterious glowing goo on the gallery floor #BurtonStory”
My tweet:
“He felt his heart pounding hard against his ribs. As he bent down, he saw his own reflection on the surface of the puddle. #BurtonStory”
And, to my surprise, my tweet was chosen to be part 2 of the story. Enter here.
Title S-s-snow, photo by ffi, cc-by-nc-nd
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Gena Rowlands in Faces (1968, dir. John Cassavetes) (via imdb)
“I’m too old to be lovely. And I haven’t got a heart of gold.”
The weirdest thing just happened, saw two old ladies walking straight through a wall…
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As if Enid Coleslaw wasn’t already enough to thank Dan Clowes for, he just goes ahead and gives you the best New Yorker cover ever.
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Yoshitomo Nara
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Charles BurnsOne of my fave Burns, this comic, love it.
“Dear Lord Jesus, I do not often speak with you and ask for things, but now, I really must insist that you help me win the election tomorrow because I deserve it and Paul Metzler doesn’t, as you well know. I realize that it was your divine hand that disqualified Tammy Metzler and now I’m asking that you go that one last mile and make sure to put me in office where I belong so that I may carry out your will on earth as it is in heaven. Amen.” — Reese Witherspoon, (Tracy Flick) - Election (1999) (via suburbanprincess)
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