Fair Trade Twitter Experiment Update

by Zarah Patriana · 2008-12-27 12:34:00 UTC
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A few weeks ago, I had posted about the Fair Trade Twitter experiment started by Tim Davies. Since then, Tim has set up a blog for the @askforfairtrade twitter experiment to explore different ways for the campaign to develop. The Fair Trade twitter experiment asks for Fair Traders on twitter to tweet their experiences asking for Fair Trade at different coffee shops. Often times, a coffee shop will advertise that they carry Fair Trade coffee, but when asked to brew some, they won't follow through. With this experiment, Tim, and the rest of us Fair Trade are hoping to find the different coffee shops around that are actually serving Fair Trade coffee.

Tim as asking all for their suggestions on how we think to develop this experiment into a larger campaign. Any suggestions? I was trying to find out an easy way to find different Fair Traders out there that use twitter and I'm sort of stumped. The search feature on twitter really is no help. I know of Flock Up that connects people that have the same interests on twitter. I think more people need to use it though. I set up a Fair Trade flock and added Fair Traders that I knew of. If you, or you know of any Fair Trade orgs on twitter, feel free to flock them up.

Someone also told me about Twollo. I tried it out for for a bit, then I realized that I was automatically following ten new people out of nowhere. Wasn't ready to auto-follow people.

Anyone have any other suggestions of an easy way to find fellow Fair Traders on twitter? Also, some suggestions on how to expand the @askforfairtrade experiment. Discuss!

Zarah Patriana
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