Would you like to make a contribution to historical scholarship?  There are two ways to become a potential contributor.  Send the Twitter Historian an email (historian [at] historicaltweets *dot* com) with your historical tweet discovery or, for those of you with design skills, follow the directions below.

1. Download the Photoshop template (zip file, 5Mb).
2. Extract and Open the Photoshop file.
3. Add text (remember to change the name, day/time, and message).
4. Add images (twitterer icon and background).
5. Change the colors of the text and bottom bar to match.
6. Save as a JPEG (75% quality preferred).
7. Email it to us!

Make sure to give us the link to your blog, site, or high school history teacher’s home page.

Legal information

We wish there was a site called Legal Tweets that could shorten language like this to 140 characters… but there isn’t, so here’s the rub:

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