Historic Explorer Tweets from Beyond the Grave

As if there weren’t enough people out there using Twitter, now we have dead explorers tweeting about stuff they did 100 years ago. The sad part is, this dead guy is waaaay more interesting than the majority of people using Twitter.

Twitter messages extracted from his diary began yesterday with his departure from Port Chalmers on the hugely overladen supply vessel Terra Nova - after which the expedition was later named. That was 99 years ago, on Saturday, November 26, 1910, and historians at Cambridge University plan daily "tweets" to attract readers to an internet blog, done on dates corresponding to the original diary entries."

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