Queen, UK royal family join Twitter

Queen Elizabeth II and the British Royal family have joined social networking website #Twitter. The page of the royal family on the site will be run to provide news and information service, with lists of engagements and updates to websites reporting about the royalty. However, the family members will not tweet on the page. "The Queen has been advised that it's up and running but there won't be any members of the Royal Family tweeting," the Telegraph quoted a spokesperson for Buckingham Palace as saying. Already more than 6,400 people have started following the monarchy at http://twitter.com/britishmonarchy. Teams at Buckingham Palace and Clarence House are maintaining the page. The first tweets are links to pictures of the Queen meeting Poet Laureate Professor Carol Ann Duffy at Buckingham Palace, and YouTube footage of the changing of the guard. Subscribe to the RSS Feed