While the weekend was a time of rest and reflection for many, thousands of charity activists were at work promoting the excellent work of a charity that battles childhood cancer. Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (@AlexsLemonade) has some 100,000 supporters across the world who help transform the dream of advancing treatments and quality of life for children into a reality. The charity’s Twitter presence created their Twibbon, which depicts their talismanic lemons, and published it to more than 25,000 Twitter followers.

On September 6^th, there was an immediate and moving response when actor Peter Facinelli (Twilight, New Moon) adopted the Twibbon himself and brought the Foundation to the attention of his fanbase of 916,000 followers, with Twitter users joining at a rate of more than 10 per minute in the initial hour.

Since that exceptional peak, the cause has continued to dominate Twibbon trending, and at time of writing has amassed a rather spectacular 4,275 supporters on Twitter. Users are still joining and sharing their profile image with these iconic lemons, and if you’d like to help, it’s not too late. Go to the Foundation’s join page and get your hands on a shiny yellow ALSF Twibbon. You can be sure they’ll appreciate it...

You can also help by donating on their website. If you have an interest in a particular branch of research, you can even specify the particular type of support you’d like your donation to go towards.

Thank you for your hard work tweeps, and for continuing to use Twibbon to lend a voice to those who need to be heard. Follow us @twibbon, and subscribe to this blog for regular updates from the world of cause awareness.

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The Twibbon Team,
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