Tuesday 21 April 2009

Death no obstacle to micro-blogging

Historic Royal Palaces, the independent UK charity that looks after the Tower of London and Hampton Court Palace, among other royal venues, has set up the Twitter identity IamHenryVIII.

Henry 8th will be tweeting from beyond the grave, giving followers updates from events, such as his coronation, which took place half a century ago.

Henry 8th was apparently a doyen of modernity himself, using the most modern means available to him to bring about change and reform. The campaign is an interesting way of imitating how modern day public figures such as Obama have used micro-blogging in communication to the masses.

- Sam

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