To celebrate Twitter turning 8 last week, the social media site set up a web page enabling users to look back at their first ever tweet. Considering the tweets were sent up to 8 years ago shows how the site has changed since its launch, including the increased popularity in hashtags, trends, re-tweeting and interacting with other users using at-replies ‘@’, all of which were unique to the site.
Here, we’ve taken a look at our first ever Tweet and some big brands. Here’s a few of our favourites:
Our first Tweet:
Marks and Spencer gave a lovely welcome but wasn’t aware that symbols couldn’t be used in hashtags at the time:
Our favourite tea bag company PG Tips also used a light-hearted first tweet:
Domino’s didn’t waste any time in promoting their services:
Whilst looking for businesses tweets, we stumbled across Piers Morgan’s page which has shown to be one of the funniest first celebrity tweets:
We’ve also taken a look some of our profiles in the office:
Our Social Media Intern:
Our PR Account Executive: