Twitter 10th anniversary: What were the first tweets of tweet-friendly footballers?
The social network is celebrating its 10th birthday today
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Your support makes all the difference.As you’ve probably noticed by now if you have been using the internet today, Twitter is now 10 years old.
The social network has been marking its special day by encouraging users to tweet with the #LoveTwitter hashtag because on 21 March 2006, at 9.50pm Pacific Standard Time, founder and current CEO Jack Dorsey sent the first-ever tweet - “just setting up my twttr”.
It’s alright, if not exactly as memorable as "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you”, and all the commotion got us wondering - what were the first tweets sent by a selection of tweet-friendly footballers and were they any more interesting?
Using the #FirstTweet tool, we’ve dug back through the accounts of several ex-pros.
It turns out, despite many using variations on the ‘welcome to my official Twitter account’ and ‘lol I don’t know how to work this’ standards, a few of them had something funny, interesting or just downright bewildering to say.
Footballers’ first tweets
Wayne Rooney
Louis Saha
Dean Windass
Ashley Cole
Michael Owen
Robert Earnshaw
Aaron Lennon
Emmanuel Frimpong
Gary Neville
Phil Neville
Jimmy Bullard
Dion Dublin
Mido
Nile Ranger
Jens Lehmann
Do you know any others worthy of inclusion? Tweet us @indyfootball.
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