Twitchhiking

Traveling using transport and accommodation provided (solely) by fellow Twitterers. (Twitter + hitchhiking.)

Twitchhiker, Paul Smith, resolved to “travel as far around the world as possible in 30 days, relying only on the goodwill of people using Twitter.”Starting in Newcastle, England, Smith made it as far as Stewart Island, New Zealand, (just shy of his target destination, Campbell Island) within the allotted time, and raised £5,000 ($7,200) for a water charity.

Smith blogged:

“The Twitchhiker project showed that kindness is universal, that the whole can be infinitely greater than the sum of its parts, and that social media may begin online but it will converge with the real world whenever and wherever you let it.”