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Canadian Prime Minister: ME tweet?

Old Bones

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Justin Trudeau's (Canadian Prime Minister) Twitter account posted the following on April 29:

"There’s still time to support the @cancersociety’s daffodil month! #JoinTheFight now to support Canadians living with cancer."

To keep the momentum going, as started by @ScottTriGuy with his Patient Perspective documents and recent meeting with a Ministry of Health Policy Advisor . . . . How would we go about encouraging PM Trudeau to post a similar tweet in support of ME patients for Awareness Day on May 12?

I have no social media presence as myself (eg. no Facebook or Twitter account), as opposed to Old Bones on PR, and haven't a clue how this could be accomplished. Any takers out there who are more "in the loop" on-line?
 

ScottTriGuy

Stop the harm. Start the research and treatment.
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One thought is Thunderclap - instead of getting PM to tweet, he gets inundated (at say 8am May 12th) with a lot tweets - hopefully he re-tweets - here are the deets:
https://www.thunderclap.it/about

If a tweet falls in the forest...
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