Kiva's mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.

Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend to unique entrepreneurs around the globe.

Kiva Notify is a service that instantly tweets you when relevant loans are submitted to Kiva.

How to use Kiva Notify?

The interaction with Kiva Notify is fully Twitter based. So to start and stop searching for loans you tweet to @kivanotify and @kivanotify will tweet you when a new loan request matches your search criteria. Each tweet you do to @kivanotify must start with either the ’search’ or ‘stop’ word. In case of ’search’ it must be following by 1 or more criteria.

For example to start searching for loans in the Nigeria in the Retail sector you would tweet:
@kivanotify search nigeria retail

Want to search for multiple sectors? Then tweet:
@kivanotify search nigeria retail agriculture

To stop notifications from Kiva Notify tweet:
@kivanotify stop

For details on the possible search commands, check out the commands page.

Should you follow @kivanotify? Check here.