Search for Year One Tweets
July 30, 2012
TechCrunch recently reported on the launch of a new Twitter search engine founded by Kellan Elliott McCrea in the article “OldTweets Reveals Twitter Founders’ First Tweets, And Yours Too (Wow They Were Boring.”
According the article, OldTweets is a tool allows users to access the 20,000,000 tweets from Twitter’s first year up and running from 2006 to 2007.
After poking fun of Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey’s first tweet, the article states:
“What does OldTweets tell us? Well, mainly that we were super-dull people on Twitter at first. (Maybe we still are, but have lost our sense of self-awareness?). Yes, we were tweeting the mundane details of our lives back then. As TechCrunch blogger-turned-VC MG Siegler notes of the early tweets, ‘my god they were boring.’ (One of his first, appropriately: ‘writing a blog post.’)”
Lucky for us, after SXSW 2007, the rate of tweeting across the United States increased dramatically and so too did the creativity of the content.
Jasmine Ashton, July 30, 2012
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