Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet ever six years ago today. These are the first 30 tweets ever. Back when Twitter was just twttr.
You know all of the primitive, annoying things people do when they first join Twitter, like tweeting two words of an incomplete sentence, or posting the single most monosyllabic expression of the thing they are doing at the moment (i.e., "lunch")? That's exactly what the very beginning of Twitter looks like for its creators, too. And for fundamentally the same reasons: They didn't how to use this thing. No one knew how to use this thing. It was brand new. It was twttr. (And at the time, it automatically tweeted from new accounts, "Just setting up my twttr.")
Though as you move through those early tweets you can see them start to figure out what this thing could be, slowly moving from something like a semi-private messageboard to something more closely resembling the way people use it today, at least between friends. Dom Sagolla is perhaps the first to really nail it: "oh this is going to be addictive."
just setting up my twttr— Biz Stone (@biz) March 21, 2006
just setting up my twttr— noah glass (@noah) March 21, 2006
just setting up my twttr— crystal (@crystal) March 21, 2006
just setting up my twttr— Jeremy (@jeremy) March 21, 2006
just setting up my twttr— Tony Stubblebine (@tonystubblebine) March 21, 2006
just setting up my twttr— Adam Rugel (@Adam) March 21, 2006
just setting up my twttr— Evan Williams (@ev) March 21, 2006
inviting coworkers— Jack Dorsey (@jack) March 21, 2006
getting my odeo folks on this deal— Biz Stone (@biz) March 21, 2006
just setting up my twttr— Dom Sagolla (@dom) March 21, 2006
just setting up my twttr— rabble (@rabble) March 21, 2006
oooooooh— Dom Sagolla (@dom) March 21, 2006
Oh shit, I just twittered a little.— Jeremy (@jeremy) March 21, 2006
waiting for dom to update more— Jack Dorsey (@jack) March 21, 2006
just setting up my twttr— Tim Roberts (@timroberts) March 21, 2006
waiting for Jack to update more first— Dom Sagolla (@dom) March 21, 2006
oh this is going to be addictive— Dom Sagolla (@dom) March 21, 2006
Planning for Sprint #4— Tim Roberts (@timroberts) March 21, 2006
wishing I had another sammich— Biz Stone (@biz) March 21, 2006
just setting up my twttr— meredith (@meredith) March 21, 2006
typing my first message— meredith (@meredith) March 21, 2006
following Mer— Dom Sagolla (@dom) March 21, 2006
I'll check back in later— meredith (@meredith) March 21, 2006
having some flowery orange pekoe tea— Biz Stone (@biz) March 21, 2006
setting up my mac mini— Tim Roberts (@timroberts) March 21, 2006
lunch— Jack Dorsey (@jack) March 21, 2006
free lunch— Dom Sagolla (@dom) March 21, 2006
feeling pains in my back— Biz Stone (@biz) March 21, 2006
using twttr.com— Biz Stone (@biz) March 21, 2006
twttr my nttr— Dom Sagolla (@dom) March 21, 2006
