Twitter campaign for Gilad Shalit

A Twitter campaign "Tweet4Shalit" has been launched to mark the 23rd birthday of kidnapped Israeli solider Gilad Shalit.

Organisers, including the Jewish Internet Defence Force, hope that by encouraging enough people to use the #GiladShalit hashtag at the end of every tweet they send on August 26, then Gilad Shalit will become a trending topic on the site.

If #GiladShalit becomes one of the top ten words that Twitters mention on the site, it will become displayed on the Twitter homepage, thus raising awareness of the soldier, who has been held captive by Hamas terrorists since he was 19.

He will turn 23 on Friday August 28.