#Merdeka55

Yesterday (August 31) in the evening was the "Himpunan Janji Ditepati" at Stadium Nasional Bukit Jalil Kuala Lumpur. The event uses Twitter as its social media tool. The most interesting part of this event was tweeting messages of patriotism with the hashtag #Merdeka55. The event targets to make a record of having over a million tweets between 8:15 and 9:15 pm. 

Here are some pictures of the event as seen on TV...

Starting off with a speech by Rais Yatim

A rather 1Malaysia feeling speech by Najib Razak! He initiated the spirit of 1Malaysia by making many transformation programmes, including 1M4U 

The historical moment when Najib tweets about #Merdeka55 on his iPad, accompanied by some of his cabinet's ministers. He wants to appreciate all twitter users for the tweets hashtaged with #Merdeka55.

Several minutes later, an official announcement came out from Rais Yatim. Two records have been made for the Malaysia Book of Records. Both of them are about tweets hashtaged #Merdeka55 during the 8:15-9:15 pm period. 10,128 participants for the event in the stadium have tweeted to Najib Razak using the #Merdeka55 hashtag while there were 3,611,323 tweets made by Malaysian Twitter users tweeted using #Merdeka55. The ceremony of the certification for both records will be made at the Hari Malaysia parade celebrations in Sarawak on Sept 16.

Tahniah dan Syabas!

Tweet Merdeka!