Ochocinco Promotes Giving Back, Shares Patch Tweet

He tweets about his dance moves on Dancing with the Stars, on his search for the "Ultimate Catch" during his VH1 reality dating show and of course,controversially, about his feelings from the football field.

But this week, Chad Ochocinco - the wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals and Twitter enthusiast - is using his celebrity Twitter platform to promote a familiar trend this Thanksgiving: Giving back.

On Monday, Ochocinco shared a little of his twitter lover with North Potomac-Darnestown Patch. It came in the form of a retweet - the virtual shout-out or pat-on-the-back of the Twitter world.

If you're unfamiliar with Twitter jargon, a retweet is when you forward someone else's tweet to your friends or people who follow your tweets. Without any necessary extra comment, it's basically a way of saying something got your attention and you want to tell your friends.

For a celeb-Twitterer like Ochocinco, his "friends" add up to nearly a million and a half followers. In fact, he's in the top 200 most followed people on Twitter.

That's why we were psyched when we saw @ochocinco - the verified Twitter account for Chad Ochocinco - share our tweet about local foodbanks in need of donations on Thanksgiving.

It looked like this:

@ochocinco RT NPotomacPatch Many local food banks are still in need of #thanksgiving donations. Find out where you can donate a frozen turkey: http://patch.com/A-ckw1

That tweet was then retweeted by more than 60 of his followers. The amount of retweets catapulted it to the top #Thanksgiving tweets of the day according to a post from paper.li called "The #Thanksgiving Daily", which tracks the most popular tweets of the day. Our tweet was listed as one of the top #Thanksgiving (Twitter tracks tweets with # signs) tweets of the day as shared by 672 people on Twitter.

Our tweet was one of several of Ochocinco's retweets focused on giving back this Thanksgiving. Here are a few other recent ones:

RT @LezCity THANKSGIVING IN THE STREETS: Sign up 2 cook a dish & volunteer 2 bring Thanksgiving meals 2 NYC homeless - http://on.fb.me/cT4sd1 #support

RT @DixieLil frozen turkey and trimmings to #Island Harvest Thanksgiving food drive.Check website for LI locations http://ow.ly/3e2W0

In proper Patch fashion, we'd like to give a Patch virtual high-five to Chad (can we call you Chad?) for using his celebrity to help promote giving back this Thanksgiving. Way to go Ocho.


via northpotomac.com