Join the Search The Big Tweet
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“A staggering 140,000 children go missing in the UK every year. On International Missing Children’s Day (Friday 25 May), I will once again join the charity Missing People in harnessing the power of Twitter to help find missing children via The Big Tweet for Missing Children. You can take part too, by retweeting the appeals for missing children that the charity will tweet every 30 minutes.
On this day, the charity will also be launching 116 000 – the new hotline number to call or text for support if you or someone you love goes missing - thanks to the support of ICAP. So please add #116000 to all your tweets and help to spread the word about this important new number. You never know when someone you love might need it.” Stephen Fry
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I want to take part in the Big Tweet for Missing Children
If you have a Twitter account you can take part. All you have to do to take part in the Big Tweet is follow the hashtag #116000 on Friday 25 May 2012 and retweet as many appeals for missing children as you can. For more info and a reminder closer to the time click on one of the buttons below!
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Why is the Big Tweet important?
For many years, paper posters were our only way of publicising an appeal for a vulnerable missing child. As time and technology have moved on we have embraced what new technologies that have made our work more effective. By growing the number of followers we have on Twitter we grow the number of people we can ask to look at our appeals instantly, and by retweeting our appeals, you increase the chances of a child being reunited with their family.
