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24/10/2014
Queen Sends First Ever Tweet
The Queen has sent her first ever tweet to open a new gallery at the Science Museum in London.
The tweet read: ‘It is a pleasure to open the Information Age exhibition today at the @ScienceMuseum and I hope people will enjoy visiting. Elizabeth R.’
The queen posted it from the @BritishMonarchy twitter account in front of 600 guests.
The message is limey to re-tweeted thousands of times by its followers.
The Information Age exhibition explores how breakthroughs have transformed the way people communicate over the past 200 years.
(CD/MH)
The tweet read: ‘It is a pleasure to open the Information Age exhibition today at the @ScienceMuseum and I hope people will enjoy visiting. Elizabeth R.’
The queen posted it from the @BritishMonarchy twitter account in front of 600 guests.
The message is limey to re-tweeted thousands of times by its followers.
The Information Age exhibition explores how breakthroughs have transformed the way people communicate over the past 200 years.
(CD/MH)
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