The Berlin Twitter Wall
On November 9th, 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. It was one of the most spectacular and long-awaited events in recent history. The fall of the wall was just the beginning of reuniting Germany and its people after several decades of being torn apart. Now 20 years later the world prepares to celebrate the anniversary of the fall of the wall. Kulturprojekte Berlin has created a virtual Berlin Twitter Wall, using social media to allow everyone to share their thoughts on this historical event.
On www.berlintwitterwall.com visitors can view tweets posted from around the world with images from the Eastside Gallery, pieces of the Berlin Wall left as an art initiative and constant reminder to the city, as a background. Also, clicking on the tiny cameras will display a popup of one of the styrofoam domino artwork created by teenagers, artists, politicians, and celebrities for the event.
You can join in by adding your own tweet to the wall. Just add the hashtag #fotw, which stands for fall of the wall, to your tweets. You can also follow @fallofthewall on twitter for updates and interesting historical fact tweets. And there’s even a facebook group to join to keep up with news and coverage.
Want to know more? Here are the most important links:
Fall of the Wall Artwork on Flickr
Mauerfall09 – Festival of Freedom
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November 4th, 2009 at 07:41
The Berlin Twitter Wall, which went online Tuesday, encourages people to share their memories of the wall’s collapse and hopes for the future on a scrolling wall using Twitter, the social networking site.
By Wednesday, there were more than 100 comments in Spanish, English, German and French. Some said they were too young to remember the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989.
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November 5th, 2009 at 14:51
Wow nice wall, very creative…
November 6th, 2009 at 11:15
You are about 18 years too late. The Berlin Wall no longer exists. The last people to chip away pieces of it by hand with a chisel where at it in 1990. All you can see nowadays are a few preserved stretches that are a memorial and a set of stones in the pavement that indicate where the wall used to be
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November 10th, 2009 at 21:29
I just left my own tweet at berlintwitterwall.com, thanks for referring. I think this was a very creative idea for celebrating this occasion on the web. It is extremely interesting to see what others have done on this wall.
November 13th, 2009 at 09:46
It is a piece of art