Twitter users, including those working in small businesses in IT, are being encourage to hold onto their thoughts for just a couple of minutes in order to respect the dead.

That's because the Royal British Legion has launched a campaign through its official page found through @PoppySupport to get people to mark Remembrance Day by not posting a single thing between 11:00 and 11:02 GMT on Wednesday November 11th.

Representatives of the Legion have been retweeting the message "2 minute silence on Twitter 11:00am GMT on 11 November #2minutesilence RT plz" regularly over the last few weeks and it is understood to be the first event of its kind on the website.

Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, a spokesman from the Royal British Legion explained that the organisation wants to appeal to the so-called "Afghanistan generation".

He continued: "Like wearing a poppy, it's an individual choice and anyone who observes the Twitter silence will be gladly recognised by the Legion. We aim to raise £31.5 million this year."

The Poppy Appeal held by the organisation was first held in Britain on November 11th 1921, with the tradition inspired by the poem In Flanders' Fields by John McCrae.

More than half of small businesses (53 per cent) believe that the most important benefit of outsourcing is guaranteed response times for IT support. London-based Connect conducted the research in 2007.