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Thank you for your service. I follow the Twitter account and I am always amused when I see what a naughty boy Samuel was. Seeing various people join in and comment, with a weird sort of "meta" that was created around it is always a pleasure.

Seeing these longer diary entries I wonder does the Twitter account publish full content of the diary entries or just selected parts?

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Only selected parts. There's a lot of stuff that isn't super interesting, or isn't super interesting in fragments, or just doesn't work as short fragments. So there's a lot of editorial decisions about what would make good tweets – often "boring" bits make for good, relatable tweets though.

I often edit the tweets by omitting a few words if it's required to make them fit into 280 characters. Which is easier than the first few years when I had to fit them into 140 characters.

There was a good exhibition a few years ago at the naval museum in Greenwich. They also made use of the diaries. Your website has proven a great follow up, thank you.

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