Twitter is here to stay. In the past few months site usage has increased dramatically, over 55% from January 2009 to February 2009. Users include Barrack Obama, CNN, and TechCrunch.
Twitter is a microblogging platform which connects users and allows them to share what they are doing- in 140 characters or less. The site empowers individuals, companies, and even the government to interact with their core constituents.
This includes social entrepreneurs, businesses, and ideas. Twitter is a powerful means for social entrepreneurs to inform others of the positive change they are creating in the world. At SocialEarth, we wanted to promote social entrepreneurs and social organizations who are currently using Twitter. While some of the users may not be classified as a social entrepreneur in the traditional sense, we sought users who were genuinely interesting in increasing human welfare via their work. The list categories are: Education, Grants, Green, Humanitarian, Media, Microfinance, and Social Entrepreneurs.
Education
EducateOrg
lnpproject
NanubhaiEF
SchSocEnt
Sicamp
Fundraising
Buy1GIVE1proj
Firstgiving
GlobalGiving
ZoomGrants
Green
Appropedia
Bestgreenblogs
Carbonfundorg
CarbonHeart
Cleaner_energy
Denversolarguy
Earthpromise
Ecogeek
EcoInteractive
Ecopond
GreenCanada
GreenerMKE
Greenmichigan
Greennews
Greenpeaceusa
iGoGoGreen
Jetsongreen
LighterFootstep
Onegreenearth
PanNature
PlanetForward
Sheagunther
Sustainablog
SustainLane
TreeHugger
WaterAidAmerica
WaterPartners
Humanitarian
Aidg
ASCENDalliance
Bajandream
Freedomclothing
HopeandHomes
Hp_org
Seva_Foundation
Stevorevo
StudentsCare
UniversalGiving
Worldresources
Media/ News
AlertNet
Changedotorg
Echoinggreen
Everywun
Focusthenation
GlobalEnvision
Globalvoices
Idealist
Neddotcom
Nlw
Sm4sc
Socialactions
Socialedge
Socialentrprnr
Thing2thing1
UnLtdWorld
Virgance
Worldchanging
Microfinance
Acumenfund
BasaBody
Common_Interest
Endeavor_global
Fivetalents
Footprintsntwk
GoMicrofinance
Grameen_Fdn
Heifer
Kivafellows
Lend4health
Mfinsights
MicroBikeUSA
Microplace
OppIntCanada
OptINnow
P_2_P
Rarenaud
Social Entrepreneurs
AshokaTweets
Catchafire
Chanellecarver
Davidbeckwith
Forimpact
HUB_Global
Janejohnson
JCCapelli
JoeDeLoss
KooDooZ
Montero
My95
OperationOF
Osize
PartnershipWalk
Project 7 (+1)
SociallyDriven
Windowboy
YogaBear
Now we know our list above is not exhaustive but we wanted to keep it to 100 users. If you’d like to join the social entrepreneurship movement, add your Twitter username to the comment section below!
Contributor Profile: Erik
Erik is a perpetually curious social innovator. As a serial entrepreneur, Erik knows a thing or two about change. As a co-founder of SocialEarth, Erik hopes to channel his passion for social advocacy into an innovative venue of social awareness for others. Website: SocialEarth
Twitter: @erikeliason
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@abhayag
Interested in Social enterprise business models (successes and failures), as well as fundraising toolkits for social enterprises. I am one of the founders of Bicycles Against Poverty (a community based organization) in Northern Uganda. We used a subsidized microcredit model for appropriate technology.
Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UhuhwSq1pI for an introductory video. You can also follow @BAPafrica on twitter.
Love to join — @NFTEJuliek National VP, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (http://www.nfte.com) Washington Office – GREAT site!!
http://twitter.com/bikePure
helping to end the drug use in sport and protect the next generation of athletes.
Thanks for adding Jeff!
Very innovative initiative! Would love to learn more.
We'll add it to the updated version. Thanks Julie!
Thanks Myles!
We're now following your tweets
[...] powerful tool for educating people and cultivating support. Previously, we’ve highlighted the top social entrepreneurs and microfinance people and organizations on Twitter, and now we want to highlight the top Green [...]
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Hi Erik and thanks for providing such a valuable list of social enterprise twitter accounts. I've now checked out all of them and am following many of them too, but some of the links no longer work or the accounts have been abandoned – do you keep it up to date? Linda