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@bonnie we’re the rarest of breeds: heroic outlaws. no way this ends badly.
[originally posted November 2008]

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Picasso: Just complimented a woman on her big head and weird ears. She was insulted. Must create visual style to justify myself.

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Historical Tweets turned 1 this week.

What started out as a fan-boy response to Mad Men characters Twittering in mid-2008 has turned into a real web site with regular readers and contributors.  We’re so honored for the attention Historical Tweets has received.  Thank you, faithful Twitterstorians.

• Time Magazine said: “Brilliant.”
• CNN said: “LOL-worthy”
• Ashton Kutcher confirmed this with a: “LMAO”
• Times of India said: “In poor taste.”
• Thousands and thousands of re-posts, retweets, LOLs, and fan-submitted tweets from people like you.

In honor of making history with Historical Tweets, here’s one from us, HT-co-founders/writers/historians Alec McNayr and Alan Beard:

Thanks again for your support.  If you haven’t seen them, check out the Tweets that started it all…

• Tweet #1: General Custer
• Tweet #2: Martin Luther King, Jr.

One small pitch, for all those trying to figure out the how their corporate marketing can benefit from online media.  Corporate social media is our specialty.  Historical Tweets went from zero to 4.5 million page views in one year… and we do this for clients, too.  If you’re interested in hearing more about the Historical Tweets story, or us as creators, send us an email. We’ll reply, and a conversation will ensue.  We promise, it will be historically entertaining.

Remember kids, those that don’t understand history are doomed to retweet it….

Alec & Alan

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Thomas Jefferson (T.JEFF.USA): Mad at co-writers. Won’t include the ‘right to sexy slaves’ in what I’ve dubbed the Bill of Oh-So-Rights.

(9 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)

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Our friends at Nokia’s Ovi Blog made a few more Historical Tweets.  We love the design and visuals, but you said last week that you thought the product integration was a little strong…

So how about generating your own?  What message would you put in the Sacajawea image below?  Let the comments begin!

We’ll start it out:

“I know it doesn’t look like the Pacific Ocean, but we have time for some poker, right?”

“I’m lost.  Leading these chumps in circles so I have time to check Ovi Maps.”
(there’s some product integration + smirkable humor…)

“Just go down to that mountain range and make a left…. or is it a right?”