An example of a tweet that has been acquired by the Museum of London for it's Going Viral project. — AFP Relaxnews
Since the beginning of the pandemic, many of us have turned to Twitter to share our moods. The Museum of London has therefore decided to acquire several tweets shared by Londoners during the spring lockdown.
These digital pieces of writing will enrich its "Going Viral" collection project. This digital initiative was launched during the spring lockdown to "to investigate and record the increase of social media use by Londoners to communicate shared experiences" of the pandemic.
The 13 tweets acquired by the London museum "lay bare people's emotions and frustrations during this unprecedented year."
They also all went viral – having been shared or "liked" more than 30,000 times on Twitter.
Among them is a tweet in which a user of the social network complains that she received a bag containing about 50 sausage rolls instead of the tampons she had ordered on Amazon.
Or a post by British journalist Sophia Smith Galer, in which she comments on a parody video created by a Tiktok user based on the BBC News theme music.
"Little does she know this is actually how we create the news," wrote Sophia Smith Galer. An observation that has collected, to date, more than 138,600 "I like" mentions and 30700 retweets.
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