How Twitter celebrated the #Queenat90
April 22 2016On Thursday April 21st, the UK celebrated the Queen’s 90th birthday. She received hundreds of thousands of messages on social media wishing her many happy returns, and we used Visibrain to look back on what Twitter had to say.
There were 334,583 tweets about the Queen’s birthday between April 20th at 5 pm and April 22nd at 3 pm, posted by 205,754 people.
While the 53% of birthday wishes came from the UK, the birthday of the Britian’s longest reigning monarch attracted attention from around the world. 14,7% of tweets originated from the United States, and 4,2% from Canada.
The #HappyBirthdayYourMajesty hashtag was the most common, used 233,776 times. The #Queenat90 hashtag came in second at 147,238 tweets:
The most-retweeted posts were all from the @BritishMonarchy and @ClarenceHouse Twitter handles, who were posting official photos of the Queen:
The event was widely covered by the press, the most shared articles being apiece by the BBC and a photo compilation by the Press Association @PA:
#HappyBirthdayYourMajesty: Celebrating 90 years in 90 photos https://t.co/DGolLO5jVd
— Press Association (@PA) April 21, 2016
Her Majesty also received a tweet from the Prime Minister:
PM: Rarely has anyone in public life served for so long, served so brilliantly. #HappyBirthdayYourMajesty #Queenat90https://t.co/pr6gIqr4wj
— UK Prime Minister (@Number10gov) April 21, 2016
Messages from celebrities such as singer Olly Murs, comedian David Williams and TV presenters Ant and Dec:
— Olly Murs (@ollyofficial) April 21, 2016
This was an extremely proud moment for me, finally meeting Girls Aloud. #HappyBirthdayYourMajesty pic.twitter.com/NhRMYngGXt
— David Walliams (@davidwalliams) April 21, 2016
— antanddec (@antanddec) April 21, 2016
Of course, the brands weren’t going to let themselves be outdone:
#HappyBirthdayYourMajesty we're celebrating with a #competition to #win a Britannia tea caddy! To enter RT & Follow pic.twitter.com/ipS2CWlsez
— Williamson Tea (@Williamson_Tea) April 21, 2016
Happy 90th birthday Ma’am #BTTower #HappyBirthdayYourMajesty pic.twitter.com/RNwIR9BuMn
— BT Group (@BTGroup) April 21, 2016
Happy 90th Birthday to Her Majesty The Queen! #HappyBirthdayYourMajesty pic.twitter.com/s8Tqd0ASxS
— LEGO (@LEGO_Group) April 21, 2016
90 Today! #HappyBirthdayYourMajesty #ThrowbackThursday pic.twitter.com/6z1Y6ynGoI
— British Airways (@British_Airways) April 21, 2016
There was even a message from space:
#HappyBirthdayYourMajesty pic.twitter.com/CHLLu6LNgF
— Tim Peake (@astro_timpeake) April 21, 2016
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