The more prolific you are on Twitter, the harder it becomes to look back into your past tweets. But for its eighth birthday, Twitter has gotten a little nostalgic and built a tool to let users look up the first tweet of any public account on the site. The results are appropriately hilarious and embarrassing, and you shouldn’t be surprised if tweets from last decade start getting retweeted into your feed today. So head back to a time potentially without hashtags or @replies, or even when Twitter was just called Twttr, and see how your own and some of your favorite accounts got started — some great first tweets from Verge staff are below.
Twitter wants you to relive the embarrassment of your first tweet
is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade.
I am already kind of over Twitter
— nilay patel (@reckless) April 5, 2007 Having toast + peanut butter with the missus, getting ready to purchase NYE party supplies
— Joshua Topolsky (@joshuatopolsky) December 30, 2007 Hello twitter! Does anyone know a good erotic bakery near Union Square? #forafriend
— Russell Brandom (@russellbrandom) August 23, 2010 i'm an egg
— Sam Thonis (@SamThonis) August 8, 2012 at work waiting for home time
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) January 15, 2008 At home workinl
— Dieter Bohn (@backlon) March 13, 2007 werkin.
— Adrianne Jeffries (@adrjeffries) September 4, 2008 my first tweet. my "technology and the humanities" english class has forced this upon me, although i swore never to give in
— Ellis Hamburger (@hamburger) April 8, 2010 I just signed up for twitter. What's up?
— Sam Sheffer (@samsheffer) March 19, 2009 And... one too many samosas in my tummy! I'm going to outgrow my #pants
— Laura June (@laura_june) March 10, 2009 Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.
