Showing posts with label social media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social media. Show all posts

Monday, April 27, 2009

Of tweets and flies

We get 10,000 mosquito nets more to fight malaria thanks to a bet won by Ashton Kutcher over media legacy CNN by attracting a million followers to his tweets. This event is newsworthy for me from two points.
I have recently been exploring how social media is transforming the way traditional media operates. This event tells how the individual can have a wider never-before outreach.
Second, that Kutcher decided to use the World Malaria Day as the peg, thus drawing global attention to this vector-borne disease that continues to claim millions of lives in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Meanwhile a new malaria strain, resistant to Artemisinin – the drug used in combination therapies treatment, is posing to be a new threat, says the WHO.
Now that Kutcher has won a million fans, how about a million mosquito nets as well?