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A Twitter guide to great moments in history
Last Updated: Monday, April 6, 2009 | 4:04 PM ET
By Andre Mayer, CBC News
Andre Mayer
Biography
Andre Mayer is a feature writer for CBC Arts Online. His writing on arts and culture has appeared in The Globe and Mail, the National Post, Toronto Life and Chatelaine, as well as in a number of university texts. He won a National Magazine Award in 2007.
Imagine if some of history's greatest movers and shakers had been able to Twitter.
(Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) The micro-blogging tool Twitter has become a wildly popular way to communicate, paving the way for a culture where we can express even the most complex ideas in 140 characters or less.
How might Twitter have been used to convey the seminal moments in history?
Genesis
Jhova
Fall of the Roman Empire
romulusaugustus
The Mongol invasions
GenghisKhan
The discovery of the theory of gravity
IzzyNewton
Salem witch trials
Goody2shoes
The publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species
ChuckD
The Toronto Maple Leafs’ Stanley Cup win in 1967
JohnnyBower
The U.S. moon landing
NeilArmstrong
The fall of the Soviet Union
GORBY
Barack Obama’s inauguration speech
barryo
Andre Mayer writes about the arts for CBCNews.ca.
All pictures courtesy of Getty Images, except witch photo, courtesy of Associated Press.
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