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Watch This: West High Student Creates Twitter Account to Compliment Classmates, Fight Cyberbullying

To combat bullying and boost positivity at his school, an Iowa City West High School student, Jeremiah Anthony, had the idea to go online and post compliments on Twitter about many of his classmates.


To combat bullying and boost positivity at his school, an Iowa City West High School student, Jeremiah Anthony, had the idea to go online and post compliments on Twitter about many of his classmates.

His account, @westhighbros, has tweeted over 3,000 messages since it launched in October 2011.

A new video called "A Sincere Compliment," uploaded by HooplaHa -- a website dedicated to spreading good news -- shares Jeremiah Anthony inspiring story.

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Β "I believe that showing the goodness in people is very integral to our account, because so many people on Twitter and Facebook get cyberbullied because they're less than perfect," he explained.

Here's an account of the filming of this piece:

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Tonight, Codee Jennings and I spent a few hours filming with a very driven high school student named Jeremiah Anthony for the website Hooplaha. Jeremiah saw cyber-bullying becoming an issue at his school, so he started to fight back in his own creative way. Jeremiah came up with the idea to start a Twitter account called West High Bros to combat all forms of bullying at Iowa City West High School in Iowa City, Iowa. Started in October 2011, this Twitter account took the school by storm.

HooplaHa.comΒ is dedicated to spreading smiles and positivity. The site is meant to inspire, inform, enlighten, engage and above all entertain.

Note: Jeremiah's story has also hit our highly trafficked sister site, the Huffington Post.

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