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About Twitter and the Top 10 Tweeters

  • Chris Braund
  • 14/Jul/2010 15:54

Jack Dorsey, a Twitter co-founder, sent the first "tweet" on March 21, 2006. The messaging system was originally only used for internal communications at the podcasting company Odeo. It then launched for public use in July 2006.

Here’s of lists of some of the more interesting tweeters in Britain, the earliest twit of them all? Mr. Duncan Bannatyne during the first month twitter was launched to the public!

 

Name: Followers (First tweet!)

Jack Dorsey: 1,585,624                 (Mar. 2006)      http://twitter.com/jack
Duncan Bannatyne: 110,143          (Jun. 2006)      http://twitter.com/DuncanBannatyne
John Cleese: 507,327                    (Dec. 2007)      http://twitter.com/JohnCleese
Stephen Fry: 1,610,071                 (Oct. 2008)      http://twitter.com/stephenfry
Richard Branson: 411,250             (Oct. 2008)      http://twitter.com/richardbranson
Jonathan Ross: 592,197               (Dec. 2008)      http://twitter.com/Wossy
Rob Brydon: 155,814                     (Jan. 2009)      http://twitter.com/RobBrydon
Liam Gallagher: 122,110               (Mar. 2009)      http://twitter.com/liamgallagher
Jenson Button: 102,736                  (Jul. 2009)      http://twitter.com/The_Real_JB
Tim Berners-Lee: 24,215                (Oct. 2009)      http://twitter.com/timberners_lee

Not forgetting!

VSI-thinking: 8                                (Jul. 2010)      http://twitter.com/VSIthinking

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