Twittering Through American History
Posted on 17. May, 2009 by Ben Fractenberg in Offbeat
By Ben Fractenberg
“The British are coming! OMG! Wake up the militia! Sound the church bells! Update your Facebook status!”
Amid the flutter over Twitter, it’s a reasonable question: What if people had been Tweeting for the past 300 years? How differently might we have experienced American history? What could be said about the American character in 140 characters?
