Twitter celebrates its 9th year birthday by reminiscing nine tweets that marked the annual legacy of the popular platform.
Chief Communications, Gabriel Stricker avowed: With our thanks to you, today we look back at some of the landmark moments you’ve created – moments that define our history, and perhaps yours.
It accounted the history of Twitter through Tweets that were posted from its birth.
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And of course who would be the first one to post a tweet but none other than its founder? The very first one to tweet is co-founder Jack Dorsey on the service first dubbed as ‘Twttr’ on March 22, 2006.
2006
just setting up my twttr
— jack (@jack) March 21, 2006
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Did you know who proposed the use of the hashtag that allows you to be connected with the people at the same live event? It was an early user Chris Messina who did on August 24, 2007.
2007
https://twitter.com/chrismessina/status/223115412
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Another mark on the history that Twitter was able to take part was when the Mars Phoenix Lander found ice on Mars, and NASA used Twitter to break the news on June 20, 2008.
2008
Are you ready to celebrate? Well, get ready: We have ICE!!!!! Yes, ICE, *WATER ICE* on Mars! w00t!!! Best day ever!!
— MarsPhoenix (@MarsPhoenix) June 20, 2008
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Twitter also proved its importance on reporting live events, like how early user Janis Krums happened to be on a ferry when a plane went down in the Hudson River and was able to report it real time on January 16, 2009.
2009
http://twitpic.com/135xa – There's a plane in the Hudson. I'm on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy.
— Janis Krums (@jkrums) January 15, 2009
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First time in the history of royalty, Clarence House – the Prince of Wales’ private office created a Twitter account to announce Prince William’s engagement to Kate Middleton on November 16, 2010.
2010
The Prince of Wales is delighted to announce the engagement of Prince William to Miss Catherine Middleton – www.princeofwales.gov.uk
— Clarence House (@ClarenceHouse) November 16, 2010
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One more proof for Twitter’s significance in reporting live updates for historical events was when Sohaib Athar unintentionally live-tweeted the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan up late one night on May 2, 2011.
2011
Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event).
— Sohaib Athar (@ReallyVirtual) May 1, 2011
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Twitter was the first to announce President Obama’s second presidential win. The President noted it through the platform even before he appeared publicly to affirm it, and within hours it became the most retweeted for the year on November 7, 2012.
2012
Four more years. pic.twitter.com/bAJE6Vom
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 7, 2012
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Twitter became a crucial tool for journalists; police and citizens alike after news blasted about manhunt spread after two bombs shook the Boston Marathon – and the world, on April 26, 2013.
2013
BREAKING: A witness reports hearing two loud booms near the Boston Marathon finish line.
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) April 15, 2013
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Twitter is surely the perfect companion to TV as evidenced by the most retweeted Tweet to date: @TheEllenShow’s starry Oscars photo.
2014
If only Bradley's arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscars pic.twitter.com/C9U5NOtGap
— The Ellen Show (@EllenDeGeneres) March 3, 2014
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People everywhere turned to Twitter after rebels attacked the offices of French magazine Charlie Hebdo. @JoachimRoncin’s Tweet soon became a rallying cry for free speech.
2015
— joachim (@joachimroncin) January 7, 2015
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The platform vows ‘to reflect both the world at large and the world immediately around’ its users. We are looking forward for more years with Twitter. Yikes! Happy 9th birthday, Twitter!
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