Published by Drew Meyers on 31 May 2009
The Microfinance Conversation on Twitter
I’ve been spending a fair amount of time with Twitter lately (you can follow me here), largely for my day job at Zillow.com to communicate with the active community of real estate agents. However, part of my personal time on Twitter is now spent following the microfinance conversation and networking with others passionate about the subject. Though I don’t tweet too often about microfinance myself, I do re-tweet many of the interesting microfinance tweets to my followers. Every day, it seems there is someone new talking about microfinance that shows up in my tweetdeck filter for “microfinance”, which is simply fantastic to see. Here are a few of the more active microfinance tweeters that I follow:
- Microfinance – this account simply auto-tweets activity from Kiva, but worth following to get a feel for the amount of activity on Kiva
- SeaMoMicro – I know Ryan Calkins from SeaMo in real life (we’re both in Seattle) and he is certainly one of the more active tweeters. Definitely worth following.
- Kiva – The staff at Kiva.org posts updates here
- Casey Wilson – The CEO and co-founder of Wokai.org (a lending platform Jerry first covered in October) is a fairly active tweeter. I had the chance to meet her a couple weeks ago, and she’s focused on bringing microfinace to China in a large way
- bhalchander
- mfinsights
- MFIConnect
Of course, this is only scratching the surface of those discussing microfinance on twitter. Who else is tweeting about microfinance that you follow?
