Friday, October 24, 2014

Queen Elizabeth sends her first tweet, opens Information Age exhibit at London’s Science Museum...



While the official account of the British Monarchy was set up in April 2009, gaining hundreds of thousands of followers since then, the Queen herself had never tweeted. 

The Queen, referring to herself as Elizabeth R., tapped out her first tweet from the official Twitter account of Buckingham Palace about the occasion.
A statement from the museum said director Ian Blatchford had invited Queen Elizabeth to mark the occasion on social media. 

“I mentioned earlier that Queen Victoria took a great interest in the invention of the telephone, and Your Majesty has followed in this tradition of embracing new technology,” he told her. “You made the first live Christmas broadcast in 1957 and an event relished by historians took place on [March 26, 1976], when you became the first monarch to send an email, during a visit to the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment. May I now invite you to join me so that you may send your first tweet.”

The tweet’s author was then verified by the @BritishMonarchy account with a follow-up tweet and a photo of the Queen sending the message.

Click to see more photos from the event.


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