Twitter message gets star on charity's side
"Wossy please show twits my website" may not mean an awful lot to everyone, but to TV and radio star Jonathan Ross it was a call to arms which led to him donating money to a charity set up in memory of a young boy.
The message was sent to the BBC chat show host by county resident Lucy Smith, through social networking website Twitter, on Monday.
Just hours later Ross had donated money to the charity, and posted the address for Thomas's Fund to his 231,000 followers.
Mrs Smith co-founded Thomas's Fund, which provides music therapy to children, in memory of her son, who died of a neurodegenerative disease in 2004 at the age of 10. Her 10-year-old son Harry has the same disease as Thomas had.
Mrs Smith said: "I set the account up and then put a few things up about Thomas's Fund.
"Jonathan Ross had put up a link about another charity so I thought I might as well as message him and then he put up a link to Thomas's Fund and said he'd given a donation.
"I don't know how much he's given, I just thought he might mention it. I think it's great.
"Andrew Collins, who is the patron, emailed me and said he didn't know if I knew about Twitter but Jonathan Ross had put a link up."
After donating the money, Ross gave the web address for Thomas's Fund and told his followers: "I just made a donation to this special cause. Every little helps..."
Mrs Smith said she had initially joined Twitter to find out more about the popular website, beloved of Stephen Fry and Ashton Kutcher, to find out more about it and follow users she liked.
She said: "We're a small charity and to get anybody interested and to get it out there is brilliant. I will keep using Twitter.
"The charity is going very well. We have got lots of parents saying their children find music therapy fantastic, they love it."
To find out more about Thomas's Fund visit www.thomassfund.org.uk. Visit the Chron's Twitter site at www.twitter.com/Chron andEcho
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