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I wrote this note on Facebook one year ago!

Most people, myself included, roll their eyes when talking about Twitter. Sure, it can be good for viral marketing when it comes to business but besides that it's all 'lol, I'm at the grocery store' or 'Snuggles is playing with a yarn ball' -- right? We're all about to be proven wrong...

When ingenuity, good causes, and impact all come together it restores my faith in humanity. Which is exactly what TwitCause (www.experienceproject.com/twitcause) did after reading about it in WebProNews.com. Basically, TwitCause is a Twitter based site that helps raise awareness through retweets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT). The site was created by Experience Project, and featured a charity close to me - The V Foundation (http://www.jimmyv.org/).

After browsing around the site you can't help but be moved, inspired, and perhaps a bit overwhelmed. The site reminds me a bit of the movie Pay It Forward. If you've seen the film you have a general idea of how a good deed is done and then the person has to pass that deed onto another. I foresee this project becoming a Pay It Forward for the 21st century.

The site is barely 2 years old and already there are over 2,500,000 members. With such a positive start the sky could possibly be the limit. Or at most we can hope for Ashton Kutcher like numbers (8,426,314 current followers).