200-year-old tweets.

• Position: THE ADAMS FAMILY - John Quincy Adams - Brief article

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John Quincy Adams: President, statesman--and Twitterer? Adams's diaries may be 200 years old, but his brief entries so closely resemble Tweets that they're being posted on Twitter by the Massachusetts Historical Society. By November, the Twitter tag JQAdams_MHS had attracted more than 16,000 followers of entries from a diary Adams started on Aug. 5,1809--the day he left Boston for St. Petersburg to serve as ambassador to Russia. Adams, who was...