Call for postings on Berlin Twitter Wall

THE Berlin Wall is gone, but people can still tag their memories on it online.

The Berlin Twitter Wall, which went online on Tuesday, encourages people to share their memories of the wall’s collapse and hopes for the future for a scrolling wall using Twitter, the social networking site.

By yesterday, there were hundreds of comments in Spanish, English, German and French.

Some said they were too young to remember the fall of the wall on November 9, 1989.

Others called on people to help carry the memory into the future.

“No one has the intention of constructing a Twitterwall,” wrote Markus Trapp of Hamburg, echoing the words of leader of East Germany’s Communist Party, Walter Ulbricht.

East Germany began construction of the barrier on August 13, 1961, in an attempt to stop the dramatic flight of people to the West.

The popular website — www.berlintwitterwall.com — scrolls messages along a backdrop of the East Side Gallery, a famous stretch of the wall still standing and painted with murals.

Visitors can also click on photo icons to see pictures of pieces of the Domino Wall, about 1,000 pieces of eight-foot tall styrofoam painted with messages of peace by students, celebrities and from politicians.

The Domino Wall will snake nearly a mile along the old wall line and be toppled during the celebrations on November 9.

“I remember watching it all on TV and then getting a piece of wall for Christmas from my aunt and uncle who were right place right time,” read one Tweet.

Another simply commented: “I LOVE BERLIN!”

The online wall is part of a programme of events being organised by the city of Berlin to help mark the anniversary of the historic event that paved the way for a reunited Germany and Europe.