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BOSTON — It seems John Quincy Adams was way ahead of his time. A high school student touring the sixth U.S. president’s archives recently noticed his bite-size diary entries looked a lot like tweets.
And the Massachusetts Historical Society began Wednesday posting on Twitter 200-year- old entries from Adams as he undertook a diplomatic trek to Russia as U.S. minister.
His updates are concise enough to put Twitter experts to shame: “Thick fog. Scanty Wind. On George’s Bank. Lat: 42-34. Read Massillon’s Careme Sermons 2 & 3. Ladies are Sick.” This one, from Aug. 6, 1809, comes in at 109 characters, well under Twitter’s 140-character limit.
The entries can be found at .
