TechThe Long-Lost Tweets Of The Media EliteHow did the media's most influential accounts tweet when they first started out? Let's take another little trip into Twitter's memory hole.By by John HerrmanBuzzFeed StaffPosted on November 30, 2012, 9:12 pmTwitterFacebookLink New York Times, 2007: The New York Times @nytimes "Word up!" It is I, the Gray Lady, with a "shoutout" to all my hip young friends. Just wanted you to know I've added new specialized feeds. 07:41 PM - 21 Mar 2007 Reply Retweet Favorite "Word up!" It is I, the Gray Lady, with a "shoutout" to all my hip young friends. Just wanted you to know I've added new specialized feeds.-- The New York Times Washington Post, 2009: The Washington Post @washingtonpost Hello new followers! Ready for #inaug09? On Jan. 20, tell us about traffic/Metro/walking problems using hashtag #dcalert (please retweet) 07:14 PM - 15 Jan 2009 Reply Retweet Favorite Hello new followers! Ready for #inaug09? On Jan. 20, tell us about traffic/Metro/walking problems using hashtag #dcalert (please retweet)-- The Washington Post The Washington Post @washingtonpost OH: Man: "Let's ask (the Nat'l Guardsman) how far the Mall is." Woman: "...We don't want the mall. We want to go to that big grassy field." 12:10 PM - 20 Jan 2009 Reply Retweet Favorite OH: Man: "Let's ask (the Nat'l Guardsman) how far the Mall is." Woman: "...We don't want the mall. We want to go to that big grassy field."-- The Washington Post Slate, 2008: Slate @Slate Who would've thought that a Communist nation would excel at synchronized drumming? 12:11 AM - 09 Aug 2008 Reply Retweet Favorite Who would've thought that a Communist nation would excel at synchronized drumming?-- Slate Slate @Slate China in 1978 apparently looked like a Microsoft Windows screen saver 12:54 AM - 09 Aug 2008 Reply Retweet Favorite China in 1978 apparently looked like a Microsoft Windows screen saver-- Slate Slate @Slate Butterfly is just hard. It's breaststroke that's weird. 09:21 PM - 12 Aug 2008 Reply Retweet Favorite Butterfly is just hard. It's breaststroke that's weird.-- Slate Slate @Slate Phelps is cupping his boob again. 02:48 AM - 16 Aug 2008 Reply Retweet Favorite Phelps is cupping his boob again.-- Slate Newsweek, 2008: Newsweek @Newsweek Q: Any early voters out there? 04:59 PM - 30 Oct 2008 Reply Retweet Favorite Q: Any early voters out there?-- Newsweek Newsweek @Newsweek Q: Prediction time: Who wins the presidency? By what margin? What's the deciding factor? And how about House, Senate races? 02:39 PM - 04 Nov 2008 Reply Retweet Favorite Q: Prediction time: Who wins the presidency? By what margin? What's the deciding factor? And how about House, Senate races?-- Newsweek Newsweek @Newsweek OK, journalists, come on. Our economy is crumbling; we're still in two wars, and you're asking Obama about getting a shelter dog? 08:11 PM - 07 Nov 2008 Reply Retweet Favorite OK, journalists, come on. Our economy is crumbling; we're still in two wars, and you're asking Obama about getting a shelter dog?-- Newsweek CNN, 2007: CNN @CNN Voters reject Chavez's referendum 12:20 PM - 03 Dec 2007 Reply Retweet Favorite Voters reject Chavez's referendum-- CNN CNN @CNN Indian girl has extra limbs removed 09:14 AM - 07 Nov 2007 Reply Retweet Favorite Indian girl has extra limbs removed-- CNN New Yorker, 2008: The New Yorker @NewYorker Rahm Emanuel, undecided superdelegate, said that Obama is the “presumptive nominee” during a conversation at The New Yorker Conference. 03:24 PM - 09 May 2008 Reply Retweet Favorite Rahm Emanuel, undecided superdelegate, said that Obama is the “presumptive nominee†during a conversation at The New Yorker Conference.-- The New Yorker Breaking News, 2007: Breaking News @BreakingNews JUST IN: US Secretary Rice says no new Cold War in Russian-US relations 12:01 PM - 14 May 2007 Reply Retweet Favorite JUST IN: US Secretary Rice says no new Cold War in Russian-US relations-- Breaking News Breaking News @BreakingNews BREAKING: Roadside bomb explodes in Iraq; casaulties reported 01:59 PM - 14 May 2007 Reply Retweet Favorite BREAKING: Roadside bomb explodes in Iraq; casaulties reported-- Breaking News BBC, 2008: Rupert Murdoch, 2011: Rupert Murdoch @rupertmurdoch Have just. Read The Rational Optimist. Great book. 06:43 PM - 31 Dec 2011 Reply Retweet Favorite Have just. Read The Rational Optimist. Great book.-- Rupert Murdoch Rupert Murdoch @rupertmurdoch Great time in sea with young daughters, uboating. 08:54 PM - 31 Dec 2011 Reply Retweet Favorite Great time in sea with young daughters, uboating.-- Rupert Murdoch Rupert Murdoch @rupertmurdoch Great oped inWSJ today on Ron Paul. Huge appeal of libertarian message. 09:28 PM - 31 Dec 2011 Reply Retweet Favorite Great oped inWSJ today on Ron Paul. Huge appeal of libertarian message.-- Rupert Murdoch Rupert Murdoch @rupertmurdoch Steve Jobs biog interesting but unfair. Family must hate. 06:46 PM - 31 Dec 2011 Reply Retweet Favorite Steve Jobs biog interesting but unfair. Family must hate.-- Rupert Murdoch Steve Forbes, 2010: Steve Forbes @SteveForbesCEO One unambiguous piece of great news—youngest daughter graduated from college! 08:48 PM - 02 Jun 2010 Reply Retweet Favorite One unambiguous piece of great news—youngest daughter graduated from college!-- Steve Forbes Steve Forbes @SteveForbesCEO Baseball commissioner should reverse self and restore that perfect game! 06:35 PM - 04 Jun 2010 Reply Retweet Favorite Baseball commissioner should reverse self and restore that perfect game!-- Steve Forbes Arianna Huffington, 2009: Arianna Huffington @ariannahuff Many thanks for the warm welcome! I look forward to tweeting for years to come. 04:12 AM - 30 Mar 2009 Reply Retweet Favorite Many thanks for the warm welcome! I look forward to tweeting for years to come.-- Arianna Huffington Arianna Huffington @ariannahuff Writing about credit unions on Monday. Have you read anything interesting about them lately? 08:47 PM - 11 Apr 2009 Reply Retweet Favorite Writing about credit unions on Monday. Have you read anything interesting about them lately?-- Arianna Huffington Arianna Huffington @ariannahuff Had fun at the Webbies. Acceptance speech: I didn't kill newspapers, okay? 03:46 AM - 09 Jun 2009 Reply Retweet Favorite Had fun at the Webbies. Acceptance speech: I didn't kill newspapers, okay?-- Arianna Huffington Tina Brown, 2010: Tina Brown @TheTinaBeast Count down to our women in the world summit and I'm tweeting my first tweet. 03:31 PM - 11 Mar 2010 Reply Retweet Favorite Count down to our women in the world summit and I'm tweeting my first tweet.-- Tina Brown Tina Brown @TheTinaBeast Ever since the tampon in the car park, my interest in the Tiger story finally died. 09:36 PM - 05 Apr 2010 Reply Retweet Favorite Ever since the tampon in the car park, my interest in the Tiger story finally died.-- Tina Brown Tina Brown @TheTinaBeast Woah! Newsweek.com's superb content will live on under its own banner & in URLs on the new site. Not shutting down, combining. 06:42 PM - 15 Nov 2010 Reply Retweet Favorite Woah! Newsweek.com's superb content will live on under its own banner & in URLs on the new site. Not shutting down, combining.-- Tina Brown David Carr, 2009: david carr @carr2n old man stumbles onto social media platform. hits interthing trip wire. mayhem and tears ensue. 05:49 PM - 27 Mar 2009 Reply Retweet Favorite old man stumbles onto social media platform. hits interthing trip wire. mayhem and tears ensue.-- david carr david carr @carr2n I'd do anything to have that just-written feeling except actually write something. 1,400 words = 14 tweets. no biggie, right? 08:38 PM - 27 Mar 2009 Reply Retweet Favorite I'd do anything to have that just-written feeling except actually write something. 1,400 words = 14 tweets. no biggie, right?-- david carr david carr @carr2n Does time and space expand to fill twitter or is it the other way around? I always forget. On pier in nola eating mufeletta. Def. Expanding 07:04 PM - 31 Mar 2009 Reply Retweet Favorite Does time and space expand to fill twitter or is it the other way around? I always forget. On pier in nola eating mufeletta. Def. Expanding-- david carr david carr @carr2n when winter finally ends, we become dawgs hanging our heads out the car window of life. having a moment. please ignore the tongue-slobber. 07:42 PM - 24 Apr 2009 Reply Retweet Favorite when winter finally ends, we become dawgs hanging our heads out the car window of life. having a moment. please ignore the tongue-slobber.-- david carr Henry Blodget, 2008: Henry Blodget @hblodget And now MSFT is talking to News Corp about going after Yahoo together! MySpace, MSN, Yahoo 01:28 AM - 10 Apr 2008 Reply Retweet Favorite And now MSFT is talking to News Corp about going after Yahoo together! MySpace, MSN, Yahoo-- Henry Blodget Henry Blodget @hblodget Ballmer: Google Apps blow, no one actually uses them: http://bit.ly/3n5lt 10:53 AM - 18 Oct 2008 Reply Retweet Favorite Ballmer: Google Apps blow, no one actually uses them: http://bit.ly/3n5lt-- Henry Blodget Matt Drudge, 2011: MATT DRUDGE @DRUDGE @HowardStern ok if howard's finally going for tweets, I better, too. Always hated the name 'twitter', so bitter. 06:58 PM - 05 Feb 2011 Reply Retweet Favorite @HowardStern ok if howard's finally going for tweets, I better, too. Always hated the name 'twitter', so bitter.-- MATT DRUDGE MATT DRUDGE @DRUDGE Why must Internet terms always be so flakey and such kitch? Blogger Cyber Netizen?! Get it over with, insert the stuxnet in my android! 07:01 PM - 05 Feb 2011 Reply Retweet Favorite Why must Internet terms always be so flakey and such kitch? Blogger Cyber Netizen?! Get it over with, insert the stuxnet in my android!-- MATT DRUDGE Mike Allen, 2009: Mike Allen @mikeallen We just got Siamese fortune cookies --two in one bag--"The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice you give to others"--SO TRUE! 02:51 AM - 19 Feb 2009 Reply Retweet Favorite We just got Siamese fortune cookies --two in one bag--"The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice you give to others"--SO TRUE!-- Mike Allen Mike Allen @mikeallen TV gonna eat up TIME cover tease: "Boomerangers: Bunking In with Mom and Dad"--opposite of recent trend story saying more taking care of M&D 09:57 AM - 19 Feb 2009 Reply Retweet Favorite TV gonna eat up TIME cover tease: "Boomerangers: Bunking In with Mom and Dad"--opposite of recent trend story saying more taking care of M&D-- Mike Allen Ezra Klein, 2009: Ezra Klein @ezraklein Earlier tonight, I was in a latin-asian fusion restaurant playing a techno remix of hava nagila. THis melting pot thing has gone too far. 03:51 AM - 24 Feb 2009 Reply Retweet Favorite Earlier tonight, I was in a latin-asian fusion restaurant playing a techno remix of hava nagila. THis melting pot thing has gone too far.-- Ezra Klein Ezra Klein @ezraklein Bobby flay stole my jacket. 01:47 AM - 08 Mar 2009 Reply Retweet Favorite Bobby flay stole my jacket.-- Ezra Klein Ezra Klein @ezraklein How could there have been a Ryan Reynolds/Rachel Weisz romantic comedy with political overtones and no one told me? 10:17 PM - 21 Feb 2009 Reply Retweet Favorite How could there have been a Ryan Reynolds/Rachel Weisz romantic comedy with political overtones and no one told me?-- Ezra Klein Joan Walsh, 2009: Joan Walsh @joanwalsh My daughter Nora had to hold the door to the MSNBC trailer shut to keep out David Shuster and Pat Buchanan while KO taped his promo JW 11:26 PM - 19 Jan 2009 Reply Retweet Favorite My daughter Nora had to hold the door to the MSNBC trailer shut to keep out David Shuster and Pat Buchanan while KO taped his promo JW-- Joan Walsh Joan Walsh @joanwalsh i haven't gotten over this whole black president thing, I gotta say. I could watch this all night... 02:12 AM - 25 Feb 2009 Reply Retweet Favorite i haven't gotten over this whole black president thing, I gotta say. I could watch this all night...-- Joan Walsh Joan Walsh @joanwalsh Long day. But despite what you've been hearing, and hoping, I'm not going to marry Dick Armey! 03:24 AM - 29 Jan 2009 Reply Retweet Favorite Long day. But despite what you've been hearing, and hoping, I'm not going to marry Dick Armey!-- Joan Walsh Nick Denton, 2009: Nick Denton @nicknotned The confusing name and amateurish design of theawl.com could be a deliberate antidote to the pro web. Or just be confusing and amateurish. 07:28 PM - 20 Apr 2009 Reply Retweet Favorite The confusing name and amateurish design of theawl.com could be a deliberate antidote to the pro web. Or just be confusing and amateurish.-- Nick Denton Nick Denton @nicknotned Now I know why I don't go to benefits. 01:31 AM - 28 May 2009 Reply Retweet Favorite Now I know why I don't go to benefits.-- Nick Denton Nick Denton @nicknotned To quote the great Marty Singer -- Eric Dane's lawyer -- if you don't want a sex tape on the internet, "don't make one!" 09:26 PM - 23 Sep 2009 Reply Retweet Favorite To quote the great Marty Singer -- Eric Dane's lawyer -- if you don't want a sex tape on the internet, "don't make one!"-- Nick Denton Anthony de Rosa, 2008-9: Anthony De Rosa @AntDeRosa Oof, first order of business, unfollow Julia Allison's twitter. 03:34 AM - 10 Sep 2008 Reply Retweet Favorite Oof, first order of business, unfollow Julia Allison's twitter.-- Anthony De Rosa Anthony De Rosa @AntDeRosa The Super Bowl is opening for The Boss today. 07:36 AM - 01 Feb 2009 Reply Retweet Favorite The Super Bowl is opening for The Boss today.-- Anthony De Rosa Nick Kristof, 2008: Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof @sashak and @myoung Thanks for the welcome. I'm trying to avoid going extinct. Help teach me how to do this....--ndk 08:10 PM - 03 Dec 2008 Reply Retweet Favorite @sashak and @myoung Thanks for the welcome. I'm trying to avoid going extinct. Help teach me how to do this....--ndk-- Nicholas Kristof Jack Shafer, 2009: Jack Shafer @jackshafer Mark Morford hammers the critique of newspapers by "geek gurus" Shirky, Winer, and Johnson. I sense a building backlash. http://bit.ly/Ez86d 01:27 PM - 20 Mar 2009 Reply Retweet Favorite Mark Morford hammers the critique of newspapers by "geek gurus" Shirky, Winer, and Johnson. I sense a building backlash. http://bit.ly/Ez86d-- Jack Shafer David Gregory, 2009: David Gregory @davidgregory Hey, just jumping into the conversation on twitter, thanks to Sacca. I know this is going to be better than the banking comm hearing on now. 07:04 PM - 11 Feb 2009 Reply Retweet Favorite Hey, just jumping into the conversation on twitter, thanks to Sacca. I know this is going to be better than the banking comm hearing on now.-- David Gregory Dan Abrams, 2009: Dan Abrams @danabrams I took a long walk with my dad tonight. There is nothing better than quality time with your personal idol. 02:52 AM - 17 Feb 2009 Reply Retweet Favorite I took a long walk with my dad tonight. There is nothing better than quality time with your personal idol.-- Dan Abrams Jeff Jarvis, 2007: Jeff Jarvis @jeffjarvis I wish we could tag tweets with 140-character reviews: The nano Entertainment Weekly 10:20 PM - 23 Dec 2007 Reply Retweet Favorite I wish we could tag tweets with 140-character reviews: The nano Entertainment Weekly-- Jeff Jarvis Jeff Jarvis @jeffjarvis Jut heard Good Morning America says "you can Twitter on your phone, it's like MySpace on your phone." Close but no iPhone. 01:19 PM - 01 Jan 2008 Reply Retweet Favorite Jut heard Good Morning America says "you can Twitter on your phone, it's like MySpace on your phone." Close but no iPhone.-- Jeff Jarvis Jeff Jarvis @jeffjarvis I'm showing my daughter Twitter. Another one corrupted. 08:50 PM - 13 Jan 2008 Reply Retweet Favorite I'm showing my daughter Twitter. Another one corrupted.-- Jeff Jarvis Jeff Jarvis @jeffjarvis She says she's not doing this. 08:50 PM - 13 Jan 2008 Reply Retweet Favorite She says she's not doing this.-- Jeff Jarvis Clay Shirky, 2008: Clay Shirky @cshirky It's funner to curse the darkness than to light a single candle. 11:07 PM - 11 Jun 2008 Reply Retweet Favorite It's funner to curse the darkness than to light a single candle.-- Clay Shirky Clay Shirky @cshirky Werd! 01:06 AM - 17 Jun 2008 Reply Retweet Favorite Werd!-- Clay Shirky Jonah Peretti, my boss, 2010: Jonah Peretti @peretti Old media is about control, new media is about manipulation 04:06 AM - 20 Oct 2009 Reply Retweet Favorite Old media is about control, new media is about manipulation-- Jonah Peretti Jonah Peretti @peretti This tweet copyright 2010 all rights reserved. No retweeting, copy-pasting, or other duplication allowed without expressed written consent. 03:00 AM - 09 Jan 2010 Reply Retweet Favorite This tweet copyright 2010 all rights reserved. No retweeting, copy-pasting, or other duplication allowed without expressed written consent.-- Jonah Peretti