The Lost Tweets Of Tech Elite

How did tech's most influential people tweet four, five, and six years ago? Let's take a little trip into Twitter's memory hole.

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by John Herrman

BuzzFeed Staff

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by Samir Mezrahi

BuzzFeed Staff

Posted on November 30, 2012, 4:59 pm

flitting around new york city and having lots of meetings-- Twitter

fixing to send out an email with news about twitter to a bunch of nice folks-- Twitter

working on iphones via 'hahlo' and 'pocket tweets' - fun!-- Twitter

Taking twitter down for a little nap - the site and message delivery will be back within 4 hours-- Twitter

Fun Fact: It's YouTube, not You Tube. One word!-- Chad Hurley

I'm 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010-- A Googler

Thanks to everyone for your warm Twitter welcome - we're excited to be here.-- A Googler

@yahoo @live_search thanks for the warm welcome!-- A Googler

Did everyone have an AWESOME day? What an incredible time to be working and living the internet! We are all very lucky.-- Dave Morin

Hanging with ijustine, ashot, and crew-- Dave Morin

everyone is going to TED, but i am going to BED-- Anil Dash

enjoying ev's blog post, looking in piggy bank-- Anil Dash

TWITTERING MY ASS OFF-- Anil Dash

thinking about sleeping-- Anil Dash

This twitter thing is going to be huge.... I'm going to start a network of twitter blogs around topics like gadgets, cars, and gossip....-- jason

Who's building a twitter/google adsense widget? I need to monitize this medium before Denton.-- jason

my facebook news feed now 95% things of no interest or relation to me. I'm out.-- dick costolo

I am the number four search result for "dick measure" at infoseek.jp. Filed under: You gotta start somewhere-- dick costolo

Thinking that i don't like the term 'social graph'. Also don't like the word 'prosumer', which shouldn't be allowed to be a word.-- dick costolo

dreamed i started a business faxing pictures of fish to people. Think the antibiotics are having some unwelcome side effects.-- dick costolo

Just played with the Palm Pre. HOLY COW is that a spectacular phone! I'll be there's panic in Cupertino....-- David Pogue

iPhone app store now up to 15,000. When am I going to have time to reivew them all?-- David Pogue

Hey--I'm writing about the rise of gadgets that can recharge through a mini-USB jack (like BlackBerry, etc.). Can you think of any others?-- David Pogue

Just saw a giant Hannukah Menorah made entirely of seashells on a street in South Beach. Weird.-- Walt Mossberg

Am glad everyone now has a mobile app store . But they are hard to do right. Just announcing one doesn't mean it'll be any good.-- Walt Mossberg

New experience: Tweeting on an iPhone from eye doctor's office while eyes are dilated from the drops they use. Focus, focus, focus!-- Walt Mossberg

That indeed is a good idea.-- Om Malik

just finished writing about twttr-- Om Malik

What a waste of time. :-)-- Om Malik

Yes.-- Om Malik

iPhone phever-- John Gruber

Late start to the day. Having coffee.-- John Gruber

thinking about Mac rumor jackasses.-- John Gruber

Wishing they'd let me touch the iPhone.-- John Gruber

just setting up my twttr-- Biz Stone

using twttr.com-- Biz Stone

doin' some emailz-- Biz Stone

inviting coworkers-- Jack Dorsey

lunch-- Jack Dorsey

drawing naked people-- Jack Dorsey

reading biz's statuses from sms-- Jack Dorsey

wondering if updates are working-- Evan Williams

happy that they are-- Evan Williams

assuming jack's thought of that-- Evan Williams

I surrender Twitter. You win.-- Leo Laporte

Ok this sounds a little gay but the Virgin America pilots are cute. I mean really cute.-- Leo Laporte

Kindle is what happens when a company designs a product to fit its business model instead of its customers needs.-- Leo Laporte

mc hammer is even cooler than you would expect-- Sarah Lacy

woohoo. A Twitter account of my very own, unbound by the corporate policy chains of TechCrunch. Freedom!-- Michael Arrington

i mean, seriously. I can say whatever the fuck I want. And I will.-- Michael Arrington

Digg Images going live tonight.-- MG Siegler

playing some Twilight Princess-- MG Siegler

Maybe our 6th sense will be "crowd sensing" - like crowd sourcing but done passively through sensors on phones and enabling trends 2b seen-- marissamayer

Google and Twitter!! Yay!! http://bit.ly/183svN-- marissamayer

I'm going to Twitter from three states today: Louisiana, Iowa, and New Hampshire. Right now I'm in New Orleans with a journalist from the WaPo.-- Robert Scoble

I'm the devil. I have 666 followers.-- Robert Scoble

Twitter is amazing. Got 12 emails already in the first three minutes. SXSW is going to be so fun!-- Robert Scoble

Surprisingly, Twitter's a hard sell to the productivity crowd. :\-- Gina Trapani

Goodbye Galactica.
You gave us 4 years of great SciFi/Drama.
And went out as grandly as you came in.
I shall miss you.-- Philip Schiller

"Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness"
July 4, 1776-- Philip Schiller

Blogging!-- TechCrunch

God All I do is blog. read blogs. write blogs. blog.-- TechCrunch

1:17 am...staring at my screen in a stupor.-- TechCrunch