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#Cleanupchallenge: The Twitter initiative that is actually making a difference

12 March 2019 - 10:55 By Cebelihle Bhengu
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Cleaning up the outdoors.
Cleaning up the outdoors.
Image: Helder Ameida/123RF

Tweeps are known to be a creative and hilarious bunch who can turn any trending topic into a challenge and make it top the platform's trends list. But this time, there's a challenge that is making a difference.

#Cleaupchallenge means that Tweeps post pictures of themselves in parts of their communities which need some cleaning up and caption them "before" and post the "after" picture of the same area after it has been cleaned up.

More and more are heeding the call, cleaning up littered beaches, roads and parks.

Here are some of the pictures from the challenge as well as reactions to it:

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