We stumbled across an interesting article in The Sunday Times Magazine last weekend, it’s an endearing story about a young man inheriting his Grandfather’s war memorabilia. In the collection was a book of short, sharp dairy entries which documented Private Ross Taylor’s experiences throughout this testing period of time. Intriguingly, they never exceeded 140 characters, and we all know the relevance of that don’t we.
His Grandson Chris Ayres is retelling his story on Twitter, as Chris explained in the article, “It’s fascinating to think that my Grandfather essentially tweeted the first year of the war.”
At Lightbulb stories like this about social media really excite us. As you already know we are huge Twitter fans and this is just another example of how it’s being used – and in this instance, it’s reliving history from one man’s point of view, for all the world to see.
Find out more about the wonders of social media on our website, and you simply must follow @DriverRoss on Twitter – the story is simply fascinating.
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