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Before asking for people to tweet their feats on Thursday, I didn’t really know what to expect or if anybody would care enough to get involved. In the end, our first round of Thursday Feats attracted plenty of interest, and on Monday you’ll vote for the feat you want to help make happen in the coming 30 days. I’ll write more about this process tomorrow.

Back to Thursday for now. As #feats began appearing I decided to retweet them so followers could see what sort of requests people were making. I didn’t expect anything to come of this, and a few people stopped following as a result. Thankfully, others were paying close attention.

One of the first #feats came from Phillip Newman in New Zealand:

I’ll be honest, I didn’t think much of this – I thought it was some chancer after free video equipment. So I was both ecstatically delighted and desperately guilty for being so cynical when Phillip emailed me yesterday:

“A local company who was watching the twitter feed came forward and has expressed interest in donating their time and expertise to my cause.

“Through this contact I’ve managed to get a couple other contacts who’ve said they would like to chip in something towards getting the video gear needed for me to complete this newly renamed #feat.

“If you remember I’m the guy who wanted to get the pro video gear to be able to go to charity events in my area and provide them a free video for their promotional purposes. My company has all ready been involved in this and it’s been welcomed but there as you can imagine limitations with a small handy cam.

“I’m really happy you’ve started this – that tweet could have been the best thing I’ve done to get me on the right track.”

With the support of just a few hundred people, we’re already bringing about positive change. That’s not a bad start. The more people who follow and don’t mind retweeting one or two tweets a week, the greater the chance of making a difference.

Best of luck to Phillip, and if you’re the tweep who saw his #feat and decided to get involved, thank you for acting.

So here we go! Feats Of Tweet will kick off tomorrow. From 9am BST, you can tweet the hopes, ambitions or goals that you’d like Twitter’s help to achieve.

They can be charitable, personal, big or small. They may make a difference to many people if achieved, or just you. It doesn’t matter – all we want to do is create some positive change in the world through goodwill. Read the FAQ for more ideas.

So here’s how it works:

- Wherever you are in the world, you can get involved – geography is irrelevant

- You have 24 hours from tomorrow at 9am BST – so 3am tomorrow morning in New York, 2am in Wichita and 8pm tomorrow evening in Auckland – to tweet the task you want help with (your “feat”).

- You must send it to @FeatsOfTweet from a public Twitter account and add the hashtag #feat

And that’s it!

After that, I’ll check details with some or all of those who have tweeted their feats, and there’ll be a poll on Monday; you get to choose which feat Twitter will support and attempt to make happen.

I’m a little apprehensive about this working, so please take a moment to retweet this post and encourage your followers to join in – they may have a feat they’d like help with, or they may just be the one person that can make it happen for somebody else.

Thank you!

I know. We’re meant to kick things off today by asking for feats. The big launch. Fireworks! Bunting! Parades! I won’t bore you with the minutiae of it all, but when we start I want to make sure I can give this project my full attention, and for a bunch of very significant reasons I can’t do right now.

Photo by elvis_payne on Flickr. Some rights reserved.

I have a cunning plan to clear the decks and get back on track in a week – so we’ll launch Feats Of Tweets next Thursday (10th).

Again, sorry for the delay. Stick with it, though – it should be worth the wait.

If you’ve been following Feats Of Tweet on Twitter, you’ll know that next Thursday (3rd September) is when individuals can submit their feats for the first time.

Obviously we have to begin somewhere, but I don’t think we’ve achieved critical mass in terms of followers yet. That said, we probably won’t until people see how it all works. Our course is set so we’ll see what happens. I’ll spend the next week tweaking and tweeting so we’re good to go, and in the meantime I’d like to ask for your help.

If you haven’t already, please read the FAQ and the first blog entry to see how Feats Of Tweet works. Then tell everyone about it, any way you can – send a tweet, retweet this post (there’s a very handy button at the top), write about Feats Of Tweet on your blog. Tattoo the logo on your forehead, ask your local supermarket to announce it from the tannoy. If you’re the sort of person much loved by advertising executives that frequents water coolers to exchange views with like-minded colleagues, make it today’s first topic of conversation.

Photo by Caro Wallis on Flickr. Some rights reserved.

Ideally I’d like to reach 1,000 followers by next Thursday – there’ll be no fireworks are parades if we break four figures, but it’ll further our chances of success.

If you need anything, have a question or query, please don’t hesitate to shoot me an email or @reply. I’m manually following everyone who follows @FeatsOfTweet so you should be able to send me a DM if you’d like to.