Queen Elizabeth II Sends Her First Tweet

Britain's monarch dabbled in social media on Friday by sending her
very first tweet.

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

While opening the Information Age exhibit at London's Science Museum,
the Queen, referring to herself as Elizabeth R., tapped out her first
tweet from the official Twitter account of Buckingham Palace.

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.

#TheQueenTweets pic.twitter.com/jz 69LOlGcD

-- BritishMonarchy (@BritishMonarchy) October 24, 2014

The last tweet was sent personally by The Queen from her official
Twitter account @BritishMonarchy #TheQueenTweets

-- BritishMonarchy (@BritishMonarchy) October 24, 2014