What Should Be My First Tweet

Happy birthday Twitter!

In celebration of its eighth birthday, Twitter created the First Tweets site that allows you to find your first tweet.

Not only could you find your first tweet, you could enter any Twitter username to find their first tweet.

People were excited to share their first tweet using the hashtag #FirstTweet.

Sadly, the First Tweets site is no more. Twitter took it down.

But, there is still an option, with more steps, for you to find your first tweet.

My First Tweet

I'd been on Twitter for almost seven years in 2014 when I searched for my first tweet.

With over 60,000 tweets, I was curious to take a look back at my first tweet.

Trying to figure out how to reply to other twitter posts.

— Deborah Edwards-Onoro (@redcrew) December 31, 2007

Friends and colleagues who know me well probably aren't surprised by my first tweet.

I checked out some of my friends' first tweets as well:

10 days tweeting for @stcaccess made me realize I needed to do my own tweeting as well!

— Karen Mardahl (@kmdk) November 12, 2008

just registered to see what this twitter thing is all about

— Curtiss Grymala (@cgrymala) March 13, 2009

At An Event Apart in Seattle

— Nick DeNardis (@nickdenardis) June 22, 2007

I have now just entered twitter…

— Maria Gosur (@mariagosur) July 8, 2009

And then I checked some of my favorite sites:

UX Magazine is on Twitter! Yay!

— UX Magazine (@uxmag) June 9, 2008

WordPress 2.1 Ella http://tinyurl.com/224nrm

— WordPress (@WordPress) January 23, 2007

After 3 weeks of vacation and 1 week playing catch up at work, I'm back on line. Much accessibility news to discuss; may need to blog.

— The Paciello Group (@paciellogroup) September 22, 2009

latest post: Photoshop Droplets and ImageMagick: Tools for batch image processing

— Webdesigner Depot (@DesignerDepot) November 26, 2008

Just set up a feed to Twitter for UXmatters. We published last Monday, so I'll post links to the latest articles on UXmatters here.

— UXmatters (@uxmatters) March 12, 2009

How to Find Your First Tweet

Since Twitter's First Tweet website no longer exists, you'll have a few more steps to take to find your first tweet.

Visit your Twitter profile to find the date for when you joined Twitter
Use Twitter's advanced search to add your Twitter account and a date range (perhaps the month you joined to three months after?) to find your first tweets
Scroll down to the bottom of the search results to get your first tweet

Have you checked out your first tweet?

Originally published March 20, 2014, updated with new info on March 26, 2019

About the Author

Deborah Edwards-Onoro helps small businesses, consultants, nonprofits, and higher ed with creative and distinctive websites. As organizer of Refresh Detroit, West Metro Detroit WordPress, and Metro Detroit WordPress, she encourages members to share their knowledge and experiences. In her free time, you'll find her birding, shooting photos, reading, or watching tennis.