Putting my money where a bigot's mouth is

April 1, 2017 1:31 AM

Is there a way I can give to a charity every time a certain account tweets?

I was feeling depressed about the amount of hate on Twitter, and thought of a way to counteract it. My idea was that people could select a hateful account and, every time it tweeted, make a donation to a charity dedicated to fighting those ideas. For example, every time David Duke tweeted, his "sponsors" could each give ten cents to the Anti-Defamation League; or every time the Coalition for Marriage tweeted, their "sponsors" could each give ten pence to Stonewall.

Does a scheme like this already exist? If not, is there a website or app that would make it quick and easy to do? Basically, I'm looking for something that would keep track of the number of times the account tweeted each month (so I didn't actually have to read their crap!), then show me the total I needed to give, and maybe even let me make the donation with a click of a button.

Thank you!

posted by Perodicticus potto to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

Response by poster: Just to add - I've now been told about #TriggerGive, but this isn't quite what I had in mind. I want to give a small amount for every tweet, not just in response to especially nasty ones; and I don't want to interact with the accounts in any way.
posted by Perodicticus potto at 1:55 AM on April 1, 2017

Make Tweets Great Again will apparently donate to the ACLU when Trump tweets.
posted by jacquilynne at 9:00 AM on April 1, 2017 [2 favorites]

Maybe IFTTT could do this?
posted by monkeys with typewriters at 2:29 PM on April 2, 2017

Best answer: iKeedo is built to do exactly this.
posted by piro at 6:39 PM on April 2, 2017

This IFTTT applet will give $1 - you could hook it up to a twitter account or whatever. (Don't know if there is a way to give a different amount than $1, however.)
posted by flug at 10:22 AM on April 3, 2017