Wyclef Jean Uses Twitter for Haiti Earthquake Effort

By PopEater / Wire Services Posted Jan 13th 2010 12:55PM

Wyclef Jean is one of Haiti's most famous sons, and his tweeting about the earthquake there has been a galvanizing force on the Web. Jean is most famously a member of the Fugees. His publicist says he arrived Wednesday in Haiti to assist in relief efforts.

► Read Wyclef's Twitter Updates

Several of the most popular topics on Twitter referred to a tweet from the singer urging people to send a text to his Haitian charity, Yele, to donate $5 to the savaged country.

(The number is 501501.)

Twitter was covered with retweets of the message Wednesday. Hundreds are passing his message on by the minute, and it appeared the Web site for Yele had crashed under the traffic. A spokeswoman for the organization isn't immediately commenting.

Others on Twitter also passed around a number to text to donate $10 to the Red Cross. That number is 90999. For more information on how you can give back, visit: Aol Health: How to Help Haiti.

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Wednesday 13 January

By diana

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I hope anyone, and everyone that can possibly help, does so. These people have been through so much, and have lost everything, and a lot of innocent people have died. My prayers are with them all, as they try to find their loved ones, and recover from this.

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