Twitter (@twitter), the popular micro-blogging service, is celebrating its fifth birthday today. While much can be said about the platform’s phenomenal organic evolution since 2006, many question what was the first ever tweet tweeted on Twitter?
On March 21, 2006 Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey (@jack) published the following simple tweet:
just setting up my twttr
— Jack Dorsey (@jack) March 21, 2006
In case you’re wondering, the second tweet published on Twitter was by co-founder Isaac Stone (@biz)
just setting up my twttr
— Biz Stone (@biz) March 21, 2006
In fact, the first eight tweets ever were identical, with the eighth tweet coming from former Twitter CEO Evan Williams (@ev) iterating the same message.
