From trolling to admiration and from selfies to plain silliness, it was a tweet which painted an intimate picture of modern Britain.
The Queen tweeted, or really just pressed a button on a pre-typed message, for the first time yesterday during a visit to the Science Museum in London.
Posted at 11.35am on Friday morning, the tweet read: "It is a pleasure to open the Information Age exhibition today at the @ScienceMuseum and I hope people will enjoy visiting. Elizabeth R."
Floods of responses immediately started coming in, with seemingly everyone desperate to have their say about ER's first foray into social media.
The message, which was retweeted more 37,000 times and received almost 40,000 favourites, received a mixed response from twitter users.
One response compared the royal to a grandmother, while another told her to abdicate after a friendly welcome to the social networking site.
Others referred to her as "your majesty" and begged the Queen to follow them.
Many used hashtags #TheQueenTweets and #LonglivetheQueen to categorise their messages, while others asked her who she liked on The X Factor and urged her to "tweet us a selfie babe".
One response, which has now been deleted, told the royal to "f*** off" and was inadvertently screened on a BBC news channel.
The screening was caught by eagle-eyed viewers and, of course, uploaded to the social networking site shortly afterwards.
Prior to the Queen's tweet, the @BritishMonarchy account was managed by palace staff.
The royal family have also appeared on other social media sites and have Twitter, Flickr, Instagram and Facebook accounts as well as their own website, set up in 1997.
The Queen's son, Prince Andrew, uses his own twitter account @TheDukeofYork and is understood to be one of few royals who have personal accounts.
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