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With 100 million active users, more than 10 times as many as in the 2008 election, Twitter has emerged as a critical tool for political campaigns

Not just the press element, but the organizing element and the fund-raising element and the relationship building that all campaigns try to do.”

Twitter allowed the team to see what was resonating with both voters and reporters.

Mobile Donations US: individuals can text HAITI to 90999 to donate $10 to the Red Cross for  Haiti efforts. You can donate $10 up to three times, and 100% of the  donations will reach the Red Cross Foundation. This effort is run by Mobile Accord. US: Individuals can also text YELE to 501501 to donate $5 to the Wyclef Jean's Yele Haiti Foundation. [Update] 501501 is run by the Mobile Giving Foundation. In their terms, the foundation says "there may be some designated organizations that have permitted the MGF to grant 5-10% of each donation to the MGF to cover administrative costs associated with the MGF’s mission." We were unable to contact Yele or Mobile Giving to check the specifics of their partnership). [Earlier we had said 501501 was run by 501media. This is not true in the US, 501501 in Canada, however, is run by 501 Media]. Germany: text HAITI to 81190 to donate $5 (out of which $4.83 will go to Aktion Deutschland Hilft).   Denmark: text Katastrofe to 1231 to donate 150 kr, or call 90 56 56 56.   More organizations that are workin in Haiti in relief efforts are listed on  The NYTimes Lede Blog and more on  MSNBC's How to Help page. [Update] US: You can now text the word "Haiti" to 85944 to donate $5 to the Rescue Union Mission and MedCorp International, and the word "Haiti" to 25383 to donate $5 to the Internal Rescue Committee. These shortcodes also courtesy of the Mobile Giving Foundation. [Update] Canda: You can text the word "Haiti" to 45678 to donate $5 to the Salvation Army, again courtesy of the Mobile Giving Foundation.

Israel announced plans last week to use the Web to improve its image abroad in two ways: by setting up a new unit of the Israel Defense Forces devoted to fighting criticism on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, and through what the Israeli newspaper Haaretz described as “an initiative by the Information and Diaspora Ministry to train people to represent Israel independently on the Internet.”

YouTube is already a key front in the battle for international public opinion about what is happening in the contested West Bank

I'm not a hero. I was writing on a keyboard on the Internet and I wasn't exposing my life to danger," he said in an interview immediately after his release. "The heroes are the one who are in the street."