It’s not quite The King’s Speech, but today Her Royal Highness the Queen of England used her own fingers to send a tweet from an exhibition at the Science Museum.
The Queen’s Tweet was sent at 11.36am and read: “It is a pleasure to open the Information Age exhibition today at the @ScienceMuseum and I hope people will enjoy visiting. Elizabeth R.”
It is a pleasure to open the Information Age exhibition today at the @ScienceMuseumand I hope people will enjoy visiting. Elizabeth R.
— BritishMonarchy (@BritishMonarchy) October 24, 2014
The tweet was sent from the official @BritishMonarchy Twitter account and a photograph of the process was later Tweeted from the same account, though no-one is sure who wrote that one.
#TheQueenTweetspic.twitter.com/jz69LOlGcD
— BritishMonarchy (@BritishMonarchy) October 24, 2014
At the time of writing the Royal tweet had gained 2,627 retweets and 1,790 favourites.
But almost half an hour since broadcasting her message Her Majesty was not trending.
UPDATE:
(12.22pm) Apparently, Her Majesty didn’t write the tweet, she just pressed send. This guy wrote the tweet.
LOVE Chi who was in charge of the @BritishMonarchy iPad + “ones first tweet” pic.twitter.com/zJXwKIGxD6
— martha lane fox (@Marthalanefox) October 24, 2014
This leads us to the problematic question: who is the tweeter, the person who writes the tweet or the person who presses send? Hmm.
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