Twitter’s new tool lets you revisit your first tweet — doesn’t guarantee you’ll want to
Oh Twitter. You’re a wondrous time capsule of social fads and cultural norms, where average folks can shout at their favorite celebrities, journalists can directly connect with their readers and hashtags can replace whole sentences.
However, it’s also a great timeline of just how far each of us has come since we joined the social network. Twitter clearly agrees, which is why it’s celebrating its eight birthday with a new #FirstTweet tool that will find and display your first ever tweet. As you can see from the image above, we here at Metro Weekly had a less than auspicious start. Our first tweet was incredibly banal and poorly constructed — hardly the best reppresentation of a magazine which prides itself on the quality of its output.
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey kicked things off in 2006 with the first ever tweet:
just setting up my twttr
— Jack Dorsey (@jack) March 21, 2006
Metro Weekly’s editors, Will O’Bryan, Randy Shulman and Sean Bugg, had very different starts to their Twitter personalities:
orienting to twitter amid deadline proofing
— Will O’Bryan (@wobryan) August 19, 2009
@chrisgeidner That looks great.
— Randy Shulman (@RandyShulman) December 11, 2010
Watching the Australian Open, admiring Nadal’s back court.
— Sean Bugg (@seanbugg) January 15, 2008
While yours truly innocently became as dependent on Twitter as those who recommended it to me, something my first tweet paved the way for quite nicely:
is currently finding out why twitter is so addictive…
— Rhuaridh Marr (@Rhuaridh) March 25, 2009
Delve into your own tweet history over at Twitter’s #FirstTweet microsite, and let us know in the comments if you find anything particularly amusing written by your younger self.
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