@RealTimeWWII is a

Twitter Twitter, officially known as X since 2023, is an American microblogging and social networking service. It is one of the world's largest social media platforms and one of the most-visited websites. Users can share short text messages, image ...

feed describing the events of

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, created by

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historian and

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graduate Alwyn Collinson (born 1987). Collinson began the feed in late August 2011, to coincide with the start of

with the German

Invasion of Poland The invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Second Polish Republic, Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak R ...

in September 1939. He has tweeted the events of the war as they happened on each date and time exactly 72 years earlier. The feed has over 500,000 followers and has received worldwide media attention. Collinson has described his project as a method of helping people understand history in real terms, rather than statistics, once stating it's about "turning numbers back into people." He has lectured and given interviews on the project. The project runs without advertising https://www.patreon.com/RealTimeWWII Collinson concluded the project in August 2017, but resumed tweeting again from 1939 on 1 September.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Realtimewwii Historiography of World War II Twitter accounts History websites of the United Kingdom