In the same way that no one likes looking at pictures of themselves from middle school, rediscovering your first tweet can be embarrassing. Today, to celebrate its 8th birthday, Twitter will give you easy access to your first ever post.
Many tech execs started tweeting ages ago and have racked up thousands of tweets. However, not all of them had a particularly grand Twitter debut. The first tweets run the gamut from insightful, cryptic, steriotypical (they're just like us!), to the straight-up bizarre.
Here are the first 140-characters-or-fewer of some well-known tech execs.
-Marc Andreesseen, venture capitalist-
Twittering!
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) May 10, 2007
-Travis Kalanick, CEO of Uber-
What's up...tbone in the house!!
— travis kalanick (@travisk) October 27, 2007
-Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder and CEO of Square-
— Jack Dorsey (@jack) March 21, 2006
-Dennis Crowley, CEO of Foursquare-
chilling at work
— Dennis Crowley (@dens) July 5, 2006
-Ben Silbermann, founder of Pinterest-
...working, working, working. ...but having fun
— Ben Silbermann (@8en) February 13, 2008
-Alexis Ohanian, Co-founder of Reddit-
email. hardcore email.
— Alexis Ohanian (@alexisohanian) March 5, 2007
-Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook-
enjoying a house where everyone else is sleeping
— Sheryl Sandberg (@sherylsandberg) March 22, 2009
-Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Tesla, SpaceX-
Please ignore prior tweets, as that was someone pretending to be me :) This is actually me.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 4, 2010
-Richard Branson, Founder and CEO of Virgin-
It’s cold and will only get worse but at the moment it’s bearable. Holly and Sam are coping well as are the rest of the crew.
— Richard Branson (@richardbranson) October 22, 2008
-Kevin Systrom, CEO of Instagram-
Sitting with jack and Noah sipping on a tea
— Kevin S. (@kevin) June 29, 2006
-Sergey Brin, founder of Google-
Exploiting HTML 5 on mobile phones is going to be really and I mean really important
— Sergey Brin (@sergeybrinn) June 24, 2009
-Mahbod Moghadam, founder of Rap Genius-
Tweeuweeuweet, weeuweeuweet, weeuweeuweet...like a cop car
— Mabode (@mahbodmoghadam) April 10, 2009
-Carl Icahn, activist investor-
Twitter is great. I like it almost as much as I like Dell.
— Carl Icahn (@Carl_C_Icahn) June 20, 2013
*Just for fun, check out some of the first tweets by Business Insider Tech staff...*
-Alyson Shontell, Senior Editor-
— Alyson Shontell (@ajs) March 17, 2009
-Jim Edwards, Deputy Editor-
trying to contact comcast to see if they will talk to me for a story for Brandweek about companies that use twitter to respond to customers.
— Jim Edwards (@Jim_Edwards) September 16, 2008
-Jay Yarow, Senior Editor-
LEH Photos Please. (lame first twit)
— Jay Yarow (@jyarow) September 20, 2008
-Nicholas Carlson, Chief Correspondent-
Hello world. Welcome to me.
— Nicholas Carlson (@nichcarlson) October 19, 2007
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