If you would like to help us build a youth disability advocacy service in Queensland, then you can use your Twitter account to urge your followers to support us. The more supporters we have, the more likely that we can convince Federal and/or State Government Departments to fund a service that can advocate with and for young people with disabilities.

If you have a twitter account, we'd like you to use it to tell your followers (and anyone searching twitter) about why an advocacy service for young people with disabilities is needed in Queensland. If you don't have a twitter account, you might be interested in signing up now and letting all your friends, family and colleagues know that you're going to start using it. Find details at www.twitter.com.

For those of you using twitter now, it would be great if you could tweet (i.e. post an update to your twitter account) something like this:

Support equality for young people with disabilities in QLD. More info & sign up http://www.yanq.org.au/ydaq (please RT)

You can type whatever you want, just make sure it is no longer than 120 characters. This is so that those who pass on your tweet have room to add an acknowledgement of you as the source (Twitter tweets - don't you just love this new language - can only be 140 characters long).

The 'please RT' at the end is a request to your followers to 're-tweet' your update (i.e. pass on the update) to their own followers. In this way, the potential for spreading the word about equality for young people with disabilities is exponential. For instance, even if you have only 1 person following your tweets on twitter, that person might have 10 followers, and these 10 followers might each have on average 10 followers, and so on and so on. So as you can see it might not be long before your tweet, that was sent to just one person, reaches thousands of people.