Twitter is celebrating its 8th birthday by taking millions of its users back to their first tweets, according to CNN.
The microblogging service on Thursday launched a website, called first-tweets.com, that lets users search their own account or those of others to find their first tweet, CNN reported. Users are also encouraged to use the hashtag #FirstTweet.
"Millions of prolific tweeters have made Twitter an exciting, fun and powerful place to connect with others," says Gabriel Stricker, Twitter's vice president of marketing and communications, according to CNN. "But each of you had to start somewhere."
If anything, Twitter celebrated its birthday early, in November, when it went public in the most important technology offering since Facebook's market debut in May 2012, CNN reported.
Twitter has become an essential tool for celebrities, politicians and citizens to share information, opine and vent, according to CNN.
One of the more memorable first tweets comes from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey on March 21, 2006, which happened to be the first tweet ever published. "Just setting up my twtr," Dorsey wrote eight years ago, CNN reported.
In recent years,Twitter has become arguably the leading platform for real-time chatter around breaking news and live TV events such as the Oscars and the Super Bowl, according to CNN. The service how has more than 241 million monthly active users.
The website can be used to trace anyone's first tweet, something tedious unless you were searching for a famous figure or celebrity.
