Britain’s Queen Elizabeth sends her first tweet

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Britain's Queen Elizabeth takes her seat in a State Carriage for the carriage procession to Buckingham Palace, as part of the ceremonial welcome ceremony for Singapore's President Tony Tan at the start of a state visit at Horse Guards Parade in London October 21, 2014. CREDIT: REUTERS/LEON NEAL/POOL
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth takes her seat in a State Carriage for the carriage procession to Buckingham Palace, as part of the ceremonial welcome ceremony for Singapore’s President Tony Tan at the start of a state visit at Horse Guards Parade in London October 21, 2014.
CREDIT: REUTERS/LEON NEAL/POOL

(Reuters) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth made her first foray into the world of social media on Friday when she sent out her inaugural message on Twitter.

“It is a pleasure to open the Information Age exhibition today at the @sciencemuseum and I hope people will enjoy visiting. Elizabeth R,” the 88-year-old monarch tweeted at the opening of a new gallery at London’s Science Museum.

The message, sent at 10.35 GMT, had already been re-tweeted more than 4,000 times less than 45 minutes later.

The queen’s official Twitter account @BritishMonarchy, which is run by royal aides, has issued almost 19,000 messages since its inception in 2009 and has some 725,000 followers.