Call me cynical or angry, but why do the marketeers and attention whores always have to ruin everything?

He says he's willing to donate up to $50K, and an anonymous other person will donate up to $100K. So just donate the money already, why I do I have to follow you? Not like my follow adds any value or interest in what you're doing.

There seems to be a growing trend of trying to use Twitter as a fundraising platform and as some kind of social-awareness medium. Hell, maybe that's their emerging business model, but if it is, I'm not interested.

This is really nothing new, but Twitter seems to really reduce the barrier to entry for attention whoreing more than anything else in the past. As that activity increases, I find my own use of Twitter decreasing.