Breaking Tweets » Guy Fawkes http://www.breakingtweets.com World News, Twitter-Style Sun, 25 Apr 2010 01:06:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 TwitPics: Twitter users ‘Remember, remember the 5th of November’ http://www.breakingtweets.com/2009/11/06/twitpics-twitter-users-remember-remember-the-5th-of-november/ http://www.breakingtweets.com/2009/11/06/twitpics-twitter-users-remember-remember-the-5th-of-november/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:34:02 +0000 Bryan Simpson http://www.breakingtweets.com/?p=6070 Twitter users in the United Kingdom and in former British colonies took part in annual festivities on Thursday, November 5 to commemorate Guy Fawkes Night. Usual festivities include fireworks, bonfires, and burning effigies of Guy Fawkes.

Calling for religious toleration, Guy Fawkes and other conspirators on the evening of November 5, 1605 tried to carry out a plot, known as the Gunpowder Plot, to blow up the British Parliament building and kill King James I. Ultimately, the plot was unsuccessful. Fawkes was captured, tried and executed.

Reuters and The New Zealand Herald on Thursday reported that this years Guy Fawkes celebrations were not as popular as they once were, with less people taking part in them.

Here are a sampling of Guy Fawkes Night festivities shown through TwitPics:

“At a guy Fawkes night thing, slightly deafened by fireworks. Hoo!” per @SiHadoc:

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“Guy Fawkes Night fireworks! So pretty!” per @Alessandra_Z:

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“Guy Fawkes night” per @whaleonland:

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“Crieff Guy Fawkes Fireworks celebration was a great family night out.” per @MichelleStewart:

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“More fireworks from Guy Fawkes in Clapham.” per @markovich_79:

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