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Article: If Adams can tweet, surely Frost can too
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- Concord Monitor
- Article date:
- August 7, 2009
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Yes, the New Hampshire Historical Society's bobblehead figurines
of local notables are fun, but really, that's soooo 2003, don't you
think? These days, cutting-edge historians hoping to engage the
public are looking not for historical figures who bobble but for
those who tweet.
Haven't you heard?
The Massachusetts Historical Society recently discovered that a
journal written by not-yet-president John Quincy Adams in 1809 is
nearly perfect for Twitter, the micro-blogging site in which
participants write - tweet - in short bursts of up to 140
characters, including spaces. How short is that? If this sentence
were a tweet, it would look something like this . . . only a wee bit
longer . . . but ...