BWF in the News

March 25, 2009

LEE Woodruff shouldn't knock some thing before trying it. In February, the writer and wife of Iraq war-injured ABC anchor Bob Woodruff wrote a piece blasting Twitter in the Daily Beast. "I say let's stop the madness," Woodruff wrote of Twitter users, who update their profiles daily with musings of 140 characters or less. "I think [using Twitter] is largely about vanity," she said. "Go read an article in The New Yorker. You remember those, don't you?" Now Woodruff is eating her words. She'll embrace Twitter to help raise money for the Bob Woodruff Foundation, which supports wounded soldiers, and just announced its "Tweet to Remind" cam paign. The goal is to raise $1.6 million by Memorial Day by asking Twitter users to pledge $1 per Tweet. Lee included this dis claimer in her article: "I'm not saying I'm never, ever going to join Twitter." "View Original Post":http://www.nypost.com/seven/03252009/gossip/pagesix/ok__twitter_will_do_for_lee_woodruff_161194.htm

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