The Taj Mahal and Statue of Liberty warmly greeted the Eiffel Tower as the 126-year-old monument joined the micro-blogging site Twitter for the first time this week.
The tower that each year attracts more than seven million visitors from across the globe, already has around 1.7 million fans on its Facebook account but until this week had kept away from Twitter.
Its arrival there this week, under the username @LaTourEiffel, was quickly hailed by direct tweets from the official accounts of other world-renowned monuments. The Taj Mahal joined other momument in welcoming the tall Paris tower to the world of microblogging.
Welcome @LaTourEiffel https://t.co/V2zg3wEOSE
— Taj Mahal (@TajMahal) December 21, 2015
@LaTourEiffel Bienvenue à Twitter ma sœur!
— Statue of Liberty NM (@StatueEllisNPS) December 21, 2015
Welcome to Twitter, @LaTourEiffel! Bienvenue sur Twitter!
— Empire State Bldg (@EmpireStateBldg) December 21, 2015
Chère @LaTourEiffel, le musée du Louvre vous salue depuis les toits ! #bienvenue pic.twitter.com/QPH7sTDoNO
— Musée du Louvre (@MuseeLouvre) December 21, 2015
Constructed in 1889, Eiffel Tower has become a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognisable structures in the world.
The tower is the tallest structure in Paris and the most-visited paid monument in the world.
It is 1,063 feet tall, about the same height as an 81-storey building.
During its construction, the Eiffel Tower surpassed the Washington Monument to become the tallest man-made structure in the world, a title it held for 41 years until the Chrysler Building in New York City was built in 1930.
The tower has three levels for visitors, with restaurants on the first and second.