This week in class we discussed World War One memorials and twitter pages. However, I will only be focusing on twitter pages. There a few twitter pages that were very intriguing to me. The first one was The Great War with the @ name WW1_series. This is a documentary series on youtube that takes you back 100 years ago today from 1914-1918. They are based out of Berlin and their funding comes from Mediakraft Networks. The sole purpose of their twitter account is to keep their followers updated on new youtube posts and relay info about World War One. The second twitter page I found was the WW1 Poetry Archive; @ww1lit. This twitter account is run and funded by Oxford University in England, United Kingdom. The purpose of this account is to keep their followers updated on new poetry that comes into the archive and provide links to the poetry and links to info about the poets. The last twitter account that I found to be interesting was IWM: WW1 Centenary. The account is run by a network of local, regional, national, international culture, and education organizations that refer to themselves as the Imperial War Museums. They are based out of London, England and are funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The purpose of their twitter account is to tweet news, events, projects, and podcasts, etc. from IWM and their worldwide partners through the 2014-2018 First World War One Centenary. The honorary twitter account that was most intriguing was @FamilyLetters. They are also based out of the United Kingdom. The purpose of this twitter account is to present letters from the ancestors of The Berryman family. The Berryman family thought the letters would be an interesting way to commemorate World War One, and they decided to share those letters with their followers.

The purpose of all four twitter accounts is to commemorate World War One; however, each account does it in a very different way. The first account I mentioned above, The Great War @ww1_series commemorates World War One through a documentary series, and they post every Monday, Thursday, and Saturday. They also tell you the events that happened that week one hundred years ago today. The second account commemorates World War One through literature, specifically poetry, the third account, IWM, commemorates World War One through events, podcasts, projects and more. The last and honorary account, Family Letters does the samething as all the other accounts, but they do so by pulling on your pathos. All four accounts gave a good idea of what World War One was like by focusing on different angles such as: personal accounts of the war as well as information about the war. I learned that Austrailia as well as other countries under British control contributed to the war which was something I was unaware of before due to the fact that only the big powers were mentioned in history classes and history books growing up. Growing up the countries within those impires were never mentioned. Social media is huge in this day in age. It is so huge, that people even get news reports from looking at their social media especially twitter. Using social media as an educational tool was not only smart, but also creative. I believe it contributes a lot to the public memory of World War One  by relaying the information gathered through their research on a platform that millions of people have access to and use everyday. Social media has allowed the public to remember World War One from all angles even though it is now outside of our collective memory as a whole.