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An early example of celebrity tweeting from Adam Zamoyski's Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon & The Congress of Vienna:

On 15 July [1815], fearing capture by French forces loyal to the Bourbons, [Napoleon] went aboard the Bellerophon... the idea of holding him on the British mainland appeared less attractive soon after the Bellerophon dropped anchor in Plymouth Sound. Thousands sailed or rowed out to catch a glimpse of the fallen ogre, and local boatmen made fortunes towing visitors from as far afield as London round the man-of-war. Napoleon would observe them through his eyeglass and raise his hat to the ladies, to their intense delight. Tired of being hailed and asked what he was doing when he was not on deck, the crew took to hanging out a board on which they would chalk 'At Breakfast', 'In Cabin with Captain', 'Writing with his Officers' and so on.