Culture

Twitter’s #FirstTweet Birthday Tool Proves Celebrities Are Just Like Us

"...Is this thing on?", and other adventures.

by Katie Booth  21 March 2014

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Try to recall your first ever tweet. Perhaps you are cringing right now, or reflecting proudly on your nascent personal brand. Judging by history though, it wasn’t very impressive: probably just an awkward, self-conscious, or vaguely reluctant wave to the Twitter community.

To celebrate its 8th birthday, Twitter has set up a new tool which will show you the first submission made under your Twitter handle, with the option to check out the first tweet of others. Here’s a look at our most loved and hated, and a few of our peers, on their very first day of Twitter school: – Abbott uses his first tweet to thank his supporters on his first day as Opposition Leader back in 09. THANKS GUYS. GREATLY APPRECIATED.

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KRudd, meanwhile, sounds like a robot.

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Whether any politician has truly mastered the art of Twitter is questionable to say the least.

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This one is particularly awkward:


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Pharrell “sent” his first tweet? His Twitter age really showed…

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Ellen’s early question of “twit or tweet” is valid/ongoing.

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Asking Twitter to ‘be kind’ during her ‘first affair’? Yep, that’s a Dunham. 

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He’ll take your RTs as a comment.

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Remember when Miley was all about Gypsy Hearts? Those were the days…

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Never one for jumping the gun, Ms. Crabb takes her time.

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The Parks and Recreation guys just get it.

 

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Umm is this thing even on? Kirstie Alley is clearly freaked out by this whole Twitter thing. 

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Here’s us. Hello, internet!

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Here’s The Vine. Cribbing from The Simpsons?

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Here’s Pedestrian, being slightly reluctant.

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Here’s Mamamia. [This joke was removed because it was too easy.]

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And here’s the founder of Twitter himself.

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To play with the tool yourself, click here.