ABBA have arrived on Twitter.
The iconic Swedish four-piece have started up an official social media account, their first post being the front cover of their 1976 album Arrival.
“We have Arrived to Twitter,” The caption posted alongside the image reads.
ABBA previously started an instagram account on which they announced that they had recorded new material earlier this year.
Two new songs – including the track “I Still Have Faith In You” – will debut on their upcoming avatar tour, which will see Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad’s likenesses recreated digitally.
“The decision to go ahead with the exciting ABBA avatar tour project had an unexpected consequence,” an official statement from the group reads.
“We all four felt that, after some 35 years, it could be fun to join forces again and go into the recording studio. So we did. And it was like time had stood still and that we had only been away on a short holiday. An extremely joyful experience!”
The statement continued: “It resulted in two new songs and one of them ‘I Still Have Faith In You’ will be performed by our digital selves in a TV special produced by NBC and the BBC aimed for broadcasting in December. We may have come of age, but the song is new. And it feels good.”
It had previously been announced that virtual “Abbatars” were being crafted to represent the four members of the pop group for an upcoming digital tour, expected for 2019 or 2020. They will be pictured as they looked during the height of their fame, with singer Bjorn Ulvaeus saying: “We thought we looked good that year.”
ABBA have sold more than 400 million albums in their careers and have had nine No 1 hits in the UK between 1974 and 1980. Yet they have not performed since 1986, other than a brief appearance at a private party in 2016
