The Queen takes up twittering

No one can accuse the Queen of not keeping up with the times. She has, the Daily Telegraph reveals, become the first member of the Royal family to "twitter" - the social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send other subscribers updates (known as tweets) with short text-based posts.
 
Her Majesty’s first foray into twittering, which has been championed by the likes Stephen Fry and pop queen Lily Allen, will focus on the Commonwealth Observance, to be held on Monday in Westminster Abbey, and will appear live on the blogging website.

Although HMQ, who uses email to communicate with her grandchildren and even broadcast her Christmas message on YouTube last year, will not herself be sending the dispatches, she has approved the plan for her flunkeys to send "tweets" about the rehearsals, the arrangements and the service itself.

The Observance was broadcast live on the BBC World Service until four years ago, but, in keeping with the Queen’s desire to appeal to the younger generation, the debut tweet will, according to a spokesman for the abbey, be "pretty spontaneous and in the spirit of twitter".

 
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