Categories: Social Media

What was the first ever tweet?

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:

https://twitter.com/biz/status/21″ data-datetime=”2006-03-21T20:51:43+00:00

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.

Albizu Garcia

Albizu Garcia is the Co-Founder and CEO of Gain -- a marketing technology company that automates the social media and content publishing workflow for agencies and social media managers, their clients and anyone working in teams.

Recent Posts

Tech executive Bob Reisenweber named Director of Operations at Source Meridian

This week software firm Source Meridian announced that Bob Reisenweber was named its new Director…

2 days ago

Beyond big tech: These 26 leaders are writing the next chapter of AI 

The early wave of AI disruption focused on the tech's ability to work as a…

2 days ago

DARPA Generative Optogenetics (GO) program gathers biosecurity, regulatory advisers for commercializing programmable biology tech

DARPA GO could be used for human performance enhancement & bioengineered super-soldiers, along with the…

2 days ago

OpenAI submitted models to the hardest math test yet for AI

OpenAI published its proof attempts on February 14 for First Proof, a challenge put together…

6 days ago

The hidden costs of sedentary work: Why prevention starts at your desk

We all know that a sedentary lifestyle is harmful to our health. But recent studies…

6 days ago

Solving the headache of migrating cloud-based mailboxes for the enterprise

As organizations increasingly operate across hybrid and cloud-based email systems, migrating enterprise mailboxes has become…

6 days ago