Over the weekend one of the more constructive uses of Twitter was to scare up donations for the Madness Against Malaria charity. This is an online contest for teams to see how much they can raise. The team I’m rooting for is the Twitter Tornadoes, which includes the very wonderful Juliet Ulman, editor extraordinaire and all round wonderful person.

The contest is basically a knock-out. In each round you need to raise more money than the opposing team to progress. Juliet’s team has won 2 rounds so far, and is in the last 16. More sponsors are needed to make it through to the quarter-finals.

Colleen Lindsay explains moree of the process here (post written prior to the end of Round 2), and you can see the contest web site here.

I do have one small complaint – the stupid web site would not let me pay in US$ because it detected that I was logging on from the UK. As most of my income is in US$ I’d prefer not to have to pay two lots of exchange fees just to make a donation. So I have been waiting until I can bug Kevin to make a payment for me. Having done this post, I shall go and do so. Hopefully some of you will contribute too.