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| Twitter's sixth birthday: first tweets by the tweeters you know best | Twitter's sixth birthday: first tweets by the tweeters you know best |
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| Six years ago today, the world was sent its first tweet. With just two words – and far shorter than the 140 character limit – Twitter founder Jack Dorsey was the first human to publicly tackle the microblogging platform's big question: "What are you doing?" His answer: | Six years ago today, the world was sent its first tweet. With just two words – and far shorter than the 140 character limit – Twitter founder Jack Dorsey was the first human to publicly tackle the microblogging platform's big question: "What are you doing?" His answer: |
| inviting coworkers | inviting coworkers |
| Pretty practical for a groundbreaking moment in web history. | Pretty practical for a groundbreaking moment in web history. |
| So what were you were doing the first time you entered the Twittersphere? | So what were you were doing the first time you entered the Twittersphere? |
| If you can't recall, check out My First Tweet or Tweet#1 to jog your memory. Tweet us your first words using the hashtag #myfirsttweet and we'll retweet our favorites. | If you can't recall, check out My First Tweet or Tweet#1 to jog your memory. Tweet us your first words using the hashtag #myfirsttweet and we'll retweet our favorites. |
| Feeling shy? Don't! Here are a few examples of notorious newborn tweets to get your # flowing: | Feeling shy? Don't! Here are a few examples of notorious newborn tweets to get your # flowing: |
| Barack Obama, with more than 13 million followers, the president is far and away the most popular politician on Twitter: | Barack Obama, with more than 13 million followers, the president is far and away the most popular politician on Twitter: |
| Thinking we're only one signature away from ending the war in Iraq. Learn more at http://www.barackobama.com | Thinking we're only one signature away from ending the war in Iraq. Learn more at http://www.barackobama.com |
| Lady Gaga, Twitter monster that she is, is the first person to boast more than 20 million followers: | Lady Gaga, Twitter monster that she is, is the first person to boast more than 20 million followers: |
| op rehearsing for my video just dance and am now at wmc to perform at the Armani and nervous records party. But I am no nervous record!... | op rehearsing for my video just dance and am now at wmc to perform at the Armani and nervous records party. But I am no nervous record!... |
| Celebrity chef Paula Deen would become an internet meme in her own right, but on Twitter she controls her own message: | Celebrity chef Paula Deen would become an internet meme in her own right, but on Twitter she controls her own message: |
| Hey Y'all, getting ready to cut the ribbon on my new buffet in Tunica | Hey Y'all, getting ready to cut the ribbon on my new buffet in Tunica |
| Oprah Winfrey says "you get a tweet and you get a tweet and you get a tweet!" Not really, but this was her first one: | Oprah Winfrey says "you get a tweet and you get a tweet and you get a tweet!" Not really, but this was her first one: |
| HI TWITTERS . THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY . | HI TWITTERS . THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY . |
| Former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner's first tweet is rather ironically heartbreaking given the medium (and his misuse of it) is what woud ultimately lead to his downfall: | Former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner's first tweet is rather ironically heartbreaking given the medium (and his misuse of it) is what woud ultimately lead to his downfall: |
| i have a follower! | i have a follower! |
| Rap mogul and self-styled style icon Kanye West has proven a master of the koan-like tweet: | Rap mogul and self-styled style icon Kanye West has proven a master of the koan-like tweet: |
| Up early in the morning taking meetings in Silicone Valley | Up early in the morning taking meetings in Silicone Valley |
| In a chronological list of first-ever tweets, this is guaranteed to be the only time you'll find Gloria Steinem wedged between Kanye and Charlie Sheen: | In a chronological list of first-ever tweets, this is guaranteed to be the only time you'll find Gloria Steinem wedged between Kanye and Charlie Sheen: |
| Stayed up last night to finish reading 400 pages of -- & write about - new Shriver Report. See what you think. http://tinyurl.com/yjo3vec | Stayed up last night to finish reading 400 pages of -- & write about - new Shriver Report. See what you think. http://tinyurl.com/yjo3vec |
| Actor Charlie Sheen's very public flame-out last year netted him more than a million followers in a single day when he joined and introduced the following hashtag: | Actor Charlie Sheen's very public flame-out last year netted him more than a million followers in a single day when he joined and introduced the following hashtag: |
| Winning..!Choose your Vice...#winning#chooseyourvice http://twitpic.com/455ly9 | Winning..!Choose your Vice...#winning#chooseyourvice http://twitpic.com/455ly9 |
| Pope Benedict XVI, a pious tweeter if ever there was one: | Pope Benedict XVI, a pious tweeter if ever there was one: |
| Dear Friends, I just launched News.va Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI | Dear Friends, I just launched News.va Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI |
| Dr Ruth Westheimer is an excellent follow – she tweets timeless sex tips and famously tried to crowdsource what a sexual position named after Jeremy Lin might look like: | Dr Ruth Westheimer is an excellent follow – she tweets timeless sex tips and famously tried to crowdsource what a sexual position named after Jeremy Lin might look like: |
| And please people, don't do anything silly like going outside during hurricane to have sex. Tell u're friends you did it, but don't do it. | And please people, don't do anything silly like going outside during hurricane to have sex. Tell u're friends you did it, but don't do it. |
| Samuel L Jackson's might be the best first tweet of all time (with Danny Devito's running a close second): | Samuel L Jackson's might be the best first tweet of all time (with Danny Devito's running a close second): |
| Can-a muh fukkasay fuck on here? | Can-a muh fukkasay fuck on here? |
| Rupert Murdoch is a late-comer to the medium, and his odd initial tweets raised suspcions that it might be a phony account: | Rupert Murdoch is a late-comer to the medium, and his odd initial tweets raised suspcions that it might be a phony account: |
| Have just. Read The Rational Optimist. Great book. | Have just. Read The Rational Optimist. Great book. |
| What were your first 140 characters? Tweet them at us with #myfirsttweet and we'll RT our favorites. | What were your first 140 characters? Tweet them at us with #myfirsttweet and we'll RT our favorites. |
| Here are some of your #myfirsttweet posts from today | Here are some of your #myfirsttweet posts from today |
| From Slate editor, Jeremy Stahl: | From Slate editor, Jeremy Stahl: |
| RT @JeremyStahl: First tweet ever. Better be good, or I might lose any number of my four followers... // #myfirsttweet myfirsttweet.com | RT @JeremyStahl: First tweet ever. Better be good, or I might lose any number of my four followers... // #myfirsttweet myfirsttweet.com |
| Rola Kersha didn't have to look back, she tweeted for the first time today: | Rola Kersha didn't have to look back, she tweeted for the first time today: |
| Those who say the least are usually those who have the most to say...#MYFIRSTTWEET:D | Those who say the least are usually those who have the most to say...#MYFIRSTTWEET:D |
| A bewildered Daniel Crowe reached out to the Twitterverse for comfort: | A bewildered Daniel Crowe reached out to the Twitterverse for comfort: |
| #myfirsttweet Hello, I don't get this. Is there anybody out there? | #myfirsttweet Hello, I don't get this. Is there anybody out there? |
| Jonny Eberle was rather trepedatious: | Jonny Eberle was rather trepedatious: |
| Hi, Twitter. My name is Jonny. Pleasure to meet you. I think we'll get along, just as long as you agree not to devour my soul. #myfirsttweet | Hi, Twitter. My name is Jonny. Pleasure to meet you. I think we'll get along, just as long as you agree not to devour my soul. #myfirsttweet |
| While Stefan Campbell's thought of ways to turn a profit: | While Stefan Campbell's thought of ways to turn a profit: |
| VERY new here. If you get more than 7 followers, can you claim tax for a religion? 2010-09-26 13:11:09#MyFirstTweet | VERY new here. If you get more than 7 followers, can you claim tax for a religion? 2010-09-26 13:11:09#MyFirstTweet |
| Lauren Salay worried about Hurricane Irene: | Lauren Salay worried about Hurricane Irene: |
| "hoping #Irene takes her tango out to sea and skips over the VA coast. not a good forecast for an end-of-summer beach shebang" #MyFirstTweet | "hoping #Irene takes her tango out to sea and skips over the VA coast. not a good forecast for an end-of-summer beach shebang" #MyFirstTweet |
| Nouveau Broke explained his handle: | Nouveau Broke explained his handle: |
| $21.05 in the bank, $2.00 ATM fee. You do the math...#MyFirstTweet | $21.05 in the bank, $2.00 ATM fee. You do the math...#MyFirstTweet |
| Adam Estes still can't answer the question in his first tweet: | Adam Estes still can't answer the question in his first tweet: |
| shortbus? | shortbus? |
| Comments | |
| 5 comments, displaying first | |
| 21 March 2012 5:01PM | |
| Surely this article is just going to act as a kind of happy confirmation of stereotypes for people who complain endlessly about Twitter and maintain it is of no use, will never be of use, and people who use it are inferior people? | |
| Link to this comment: | |
| 21 March 2012 11:37PM | |
| Don't forget the obligatory and always hilarious: | |
| What is a twitter? | |
| Link to this comment: | |
| 22 March 2012 3:50AM | |
| If I had a dollar for every time I've seen - twit+shitter=twitter - I'd be retired and living in Hawaii. Warning:Please do not recommend. Aloha | |
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| 22 March 2012 7:05AM | |
| Having toast for breakfast #yum | |
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| 22 March 2012 12:16PM | |
| R042, | |
| As long as it lets journalists advertise Twitter instead of bothering to do journalism, I don't thin k anyone cares. | |
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| Remember when you first got Twitter and it was new and awkward and not like Facebook? Take a trip down memory lane with some of these first tweets, then send us yours! | |
| Six years ago today, the world was sent its first tweet. With just two words – and far shorter than the 140 character limit – Twitter founder Jack Dorsey was the first human to publicly tackle the microblogging platform's big question: "What are you doing?" His answer: | |
| inviting coworkers | |
| Pretty practical for a groundbreaking moment in web history. | |
| So what were you were doing the first time you entered the Twittersphere? | |
| If you can't recall, check out My First Tweet or Tweet#1 to jog your memory. Tweet us your first words using the hashtag #myfirsttweet and we'll retweet our favorites. | |
| Feeling shy? Don't! Here are a few examples of notorious newborn tweets to get your # flowing: | |
| Barack Obama, with more than 13 million followers, the president is far and away the most popular politician on Twitter: | |
| Thinking we're only one signature away from ending the war in Iraq. Learn more at http://www.barackobama.com | |
| Lady Gaga, Twitter monster that she is, is the first person to boast more than 20 million followers: | |
| op rehearsing for my video just dance and am now at wmc to perform at the Armani and nervous records party. But I am no nervous record!... | |
| Celebrity chef Paula Deen would become an internet meme in her own right, but on Twitter she controls her own message: | |
| Hey Y'all, getting ready to cut the ribbon on my new buffet in Tunica | |
| Oprah Winfrey says "you get a tweet and you get a tweet and you get a tweet!" Not really, but this was her first one: | |
| HI TWITTERS . THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY . | |
| Former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner's first tweet is rather ironically heartbreaking given the medium (and his misuse of it) is what woud ultimately lead to his downfall: | |
| i have a follower! | |
| Rap mogul and self-styled style icon Kanye West has proven a master of the koan-like tweet: | |
| Up early in the morning taking meetings in Silicone Valley | |
| In a chronological list of first-ever tweets, this is guaranteed to be the only time you'll find Gloria Steinem wedged between Kanye and Charlie Sheen: | |
| Stayed up last night to finish reading 400 pages of -- & write about - new Shriver Report. See what you think. http://tinyurl.com/yjo3vec | |
| Actor Charlie Sheen's very public flame-out last year netted him more than a million followers in a single day when he joined and introduced the following hashtag: | |
| Winning..!Choose your Vice...#winning#chooseyourvice http://twitpic.com/455ly9 | |
| Pope Benedict XVI, a pious tweeter if ever there was one: | |
| Dear Friends, I just launched News.va Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI | |
| Dr Ruth Westheimer is an excellent follow – she tweets timeless sex tips and famously tried to crowdsource what a sexual position named after Jeremy Lin might look like: | |
| And please people, don't do anything silly like going outside during hurricane to have sex. Tell u're friends you did it, but don't do it. | |
| Samuel L Jackson's might be the best first tweet of all time (with Danny Devito's running a close second): | |
| Can-a muh fukkasay fuck on here? | |
| Rupert Murdoch is a late-comer to the medium, and his odd initial tweets raised suspcions that it might be a phony account: | |
| Have just. Read The Rational Optimist. Great book. | |
| What were your first 140 characters? Tweet them at us with #myfirsttweet and we'll RT our favorites. | |
| Here are some of your #myfirsttweet posts from today | |
| From Slate editor, Jeremy Stahl: | |
| RT @JeremyStahl: First tweet ever. Better be good, or I might lose any number of my four followers... // #myfirsttweet myfirsttweet.com | |
| Rola Kersha didn't have to look back, she tweeted for the first time today: | |
| Those who say the least are usually those who have the most to say...#MYFIRSTTWEET:D | |
| A bewildered Daniel Crowe reached out to the Twitterverse for comfort: | |
| #myfirsttweet Hello, I don't get this. Is there anybody out there? | |
| Jonny Eberle was rather trepedatious: | |
| Hi, Twitter. My name is Jonny. Pleasure to meet you. I think we'll get along, just as long as you agree not to devour my soul. #myfirsttweet | |
| While Stefan Campbell's thought of ways to turn a profit: | |
| VERY new here. If you get more than 7 followers, can you claim tax for a religion? 2010-09-26 13:11:09#MyFirstTweet | |
| Lauren Salay worried about Hurricane Irene: | |
| "hoping #Irene takes her tango out to sea and skips over the VA coast. not a good forecast for an end-of-summer beach shebang" #MyFirstTweet | |
| Nouveau Broke explained his handle: | |
| $21.05 in the bank, $2.00 ATM fee. You do the math...#MyFirstTweet | |
| Adam Estes still can't answer the question in his first tweet: | |
| shortbus? |