FAQ
What is a Feat of Tweet?
A Feat of Tweet is a goal, ambition, target or wish realised through the goodwill of the Twitter community.
Whose wishes and goals are we trying to fulfill? Yours. They may be personal in nature, or charitable. It may take the actions of dozens, even hundreds of tweeps to achieve a feat… or it it may take just one.
For example, a charity may need 100 people to volunteer for charity event in Central Park. Hopefully we’ll have enough followers in New York to either volunteer themselves, or spread the word through their own followers.
Another tweep might have sent a letter to their favourite comic twenty years that was never published, and want to see it in print. Perhaps the current editor of the comic follows @FeatsOfTweet, or somebody who knows them does – perhaps a neighbour, their daughter, a colleague.
Some of these feats may be small, even trivial – others may be significant and bring about positive change that affects many others. Through a combination of crowd-sourcing and contacts, we can connect through Twitter and make the world a little better, a little brighter.
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How will it work?
Thursday is the day we want you to send a tweet telling the world what “feat” you’d like to occur. The tweet must be public – just add the tag #Feat so we can find it.
Five requests will be chosen every week and Twitter users will vote on which cause they want to support.
Followers of @FeatsOfTweet will then have 30 days to support and make a feat happen.
This process will be repeated the following week until there are five feats to support. Only five feats will be supported at any one time.
If we don’t manage to make a feat happen within 30 days, it will be dropped and another feat will be voted for.
Who chooses the feats?
Initially, it’ll be me (@paul_a_smith, @twitchhiker) that creates the shortlist for Twitter to vote on, though in time a panel of tweeps will choose this. Ultimately, all Twitter users decide which specific feat it wishes to support.
What about scams?
We’ll contact those shortlisted and perform due diligence. Ultimately though, if somebody wants to trick us into lending their support, they may go to extreme lengths to do so. Hopefully that won’t happen – Twitter is ultimately a place full of decent people.
I can help make a feat happen – what should I do?
In the first instance, you should sent a public tweet to @FeatsOfTweet saying which feat you can help with and what you can do to assist. We’ll reply, DM or email you – depending on what the particulars are. Hopefully when an individual recognises they can make a feat happen, they’ll make themselves known and help however they can.
Is this really going to work?
We think it will – perhaps not for every feat, but we should be able to bring about positive change in the world, one way or another. The more you use Twitter, the more you realise how we’re all connected to plenty of clever, resourceful people – probably far more than we appreciate – and like ourselves, these people are usually willing to help others. Let’s see what happens.
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller (via @suehuskins)