{"id":3385,"date":"2010-04-13T09:53:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T13:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3385"},"modified":"2010-04-13T09:56:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T13:56:16","slug":"another-interesting-use-of-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/04\/13\/another-interesting-use-of-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Another interesting use of Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The brief log entries at <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/8617621.stm\" target=\"_blank\">RAF Duxford<\/a>, a Royal Air Force airfield in Cambridgeshire, will move from the historical <em>Operations Record Book<\/em> to Twitter to mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Every squadron, station and certain other units in the Royal Air Force had to complete an Operations Record Book, known as a Form 540.<\/p>\n<p>Those for RAF Duxford and No 19 Squadron from 1940 show events such as patrols over Dunkirk, the problems encountered with early cannon-armed Spitfires, and the arrival of Czech pilots to form 310 Squadron.<\/p>\n<p>They describe the sorties carried out by No 19 Squadron and pilots&#8217; experiences during dogfights over south-east England.<\/p>\n<p>A museum spokesman said: &#8220;This exciting new campaign will give a direct insight into Battle of Britain history, and will show how the campaign built in momentum throughout 1940. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Follow <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rafduxford1940\" target=\"_blank\">RAFDuxford1940<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brief log entries at RAF Duxford, a Royal Air Force airfield in Cambridgeshire, will move from the historical Operations Record Book to Twitter to mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain: Every squadron, station and certain other units in the Royal Air Force had to complete an Operations Record Book, known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,5,230],"tags":[145,534,310],"class_list":["post-3385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-military","category-ww2","tag-airforce","tag-czechoslovakia","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-SB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3385"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3388,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions\/3388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}