Later, Emin wrote: “So many cool, creative interesting people are visiting Margate.”
Emin grew up in Margate in the 1970s, when the resort was still characterised by jellied eels, buckets and spades and Kiss Me Quick hats.
The artist herself later said by the 1980s the town had become a “no-go zone”.
Like other resorts it had fallen into decline, with boarded-up shops, empty streets and derelict arcades.
After Madonna’s post, Emin wrote that Margate had gone through a “major transformation, external” over the past 10 years.
She said it was due to artists, writers and musicians – “a whole wave of creativity”.
Emin said the town had come back to life after years of abandonment, and said that new and old “Margatonians” alike were making it a positive and uplifting, charismatic town.
“So great Madonna visited – thank you,” she wrote.