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Twitter 'Twollars' Raise Cash for Charity

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted May 27, 2009 12:48 PM CDT

(Newser) – Twitter has unveiled an online currency of sorts, the “twollar,” aimed at boosting charitable giving, the Guardian reports. Twitter users start out with 50 twollars (the equivalent of $5), which they can award to other users for astute posts and the like. Twollars...   Read full story »

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