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When Liz Taylor Tweets “Forever,” She Means It

Twitter Historian — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:00:00 +0000

LizTaylor (Elizabeth Taylor): RT RT RT RT RT RT RT ’til death do us part

Tweetmaster General

Twitter Historian — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:00:10 +0000

PostmasterGeneral (Marvin Travis Runyon): Email is just a fad
Submitted by Sean Tucker

Just Another Day at the Office

Twitter Historian — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:09:21 +0000

Bill Lumbergh: @petergibbons What’s happening? Yeah… we’re putting new cover sheets on all the #TPSreports. Did my DM get lost in your tweetstream?
Submitted by Brett Abel — Thanks Brett!

[from the 1999 film Office Space]

Al Gore One-Ups Bill Gates on Twitter

Twitter Historian — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:02:16 +0000

Earlier today, we heard Bill Gates’ claim about Twitter, and now Al Gore drops this inconvenient truth bomb on us……

Al Gore: I invented Twitter.
[He also invented the Internet.]

Bill Gates Makes a Bold Twediction

Twitter Historian — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:15:49 +0000

Bill Gates: No one will ever have a need for Twitter.

From Wikiquote: Misattributed to Bill Gates

“640K ought to be enough for anybody.”

Often attributed to Gates in 1981. Gates considered the IBM PC’s 640kB program memory a significant breakthrough over 8-bit systems that were typically limited to 64kB, but he has denied making this remark:

“I’ve said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time … I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There’s never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.”

[We're so glad to be repeating it for all to hear!]

Tweet-pac Shakur

Twitter Historian — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:44:16 +0000

Tupac Shakur: About to meet with witness protection. Wish me luck.
(from All Tweetz On Me)

Video Game Tweets & Joe Montana

Twitter Historian — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:50:43 +0000

Earlier this week, video game fansite PWN or Die posted ten of their own “video game tweets” based on our own Historical Tweets photoshop template. A big media conglomerate would be upset that they used our stuff, but we enjoyed it and hope it rang true for their audience. Tweet on!

Following in their footsteps, we thought of our own Video Game Tweet, from NES’ 1991 football game Tecmo Super Bowl, between San Francisco 49ers Joe Montana and Jerry Rice:

@JerryRice Stop running your route. Just go deep and we can score all day long.

And here’s one of our favorites from their Video Game Tweets, from the NES game Contra:

@EZ2LuvScorpion I know its HARD, lol. This should help :) up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A. xoxo M

An Historical Tweet We’re Almost Embarrassed to Post

Twitter Historian — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:30:50 +0000

@CarlWinslow Did I do that?

Ice Cube has to Tweet it was a Good Day

Twitter Historian — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:00:28 +0000

Had to use my A.K. Bad Day.

A Young Monica Lewinsky Considers an Internship on Twitter

Twitter Historian — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:30:25 +0000

Applying for summer internship at construction company. Worried about being harassed.

Bush Blasts 3rd Candidate on Twitter

Twitter Historian — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:11:09 +0000

@ross_perot u are killing me. if u don’t stop, the Arkansas hill-bill-y will win this thang.