World War 2 'Repeated' on Twitter
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CALIFORNIA - A history graduate of Oxford has initiated 'six-year project', to post a tweet about world war two, which occurred 72 years ago.
Accounts @ RealTimeWWII, has attracted the interest of more than 45 thousand followers. Tweet This includes military and political developments, as well as featuring eyewitness testimony from the battlefield, contemporary photography and news footage.
Reported by the Telegraph, Thursday (11/10/2011), Twitter was made by Alwyn Collinson, this project is an effort to help people feel like they were there.
"I look forward to using Twitter to bring the past, helping people understand them as people who saw it in the past, without taking advantage," said Collinson.
Busiest day on that account as 26 September, when the Wermacht an army of Nazi Germany in 1935 to 1945, the final offensive against Warsaw. Collinson illustrates the battle using eyewitness accounts of Polish soldiers and civilians, with short and fit the 140 character Twitter limit.
Collins updating its own feed, and so far there have volunteers who translate tweets into Apanyol languages, Portuguese and Russian.
He was committed to post a tweet during the entire six years of conflict.
Accounts @ RealTimeWWII, has attracted the interest of more than 45 thousand followers. Tweet This includes military and political developments, as well as featuring eyewitness testimony from the battlefield, contemporary photography and news footage.
Reported by the Telegraph, Thursday (11/10/2011), Twitter was made by Alwyn Collinson, this project is an effort to help people feel like they were there.
"I look forward to using Twitter to bring the past, helping people understand them as people who saw it in the past, without taking advantage," said Collinson.
Busiest day on that account as 26 September, when the Wermacht an army of Nazi Germany in 1935 to 1945, the final offensive against Warsaw. Collinson illustrates the battle using eyewitness accounts of Polish soldiers and civilians, with short and fit the 140 character Twitter limit.
Collins updating its own feed, and so far there have volunteers who translate tweets into Apanyol languages, Portuguese and Russian.
He was committed to post a tweet during the entire six years of conflict.
