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Check Out The First-Ever Tweets Of Tech's Most Famous Stars

Mar 20, 2014, 22:22 IST

Steve Boxall and Zero Gravity Corporation via Virgin

In the same way that no one likes looking at pictures of themselves from middle school, rediscovering your first tweet can be embarrassing.

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Today, to celebrate its 8th birthday, Twitter will give you easy access to your first ever post.

Many tech execs started tweeting ages ago and have racked up thousands of tweets. However, not all of them had a particularly grand Twitter debut. The first tweets run the gamut from insightful, cryptic, steriotypical (they're just like us!), to the straight-up bizarre.

Here are the first 140-characters-or-fewer of some well-known tech execs.

Marc Andreesseen, venture capitalist

Travis Kalanick, CEO of Uber

Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder and CEO of Square

Dennis Crowley, CEO of Foursquare

Ben Silbermann, founder of Pinterest

Alexis Ohanian, Co-founder of Reddit

Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook

Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Tesla, SpaceX

Richard Branson, Founder and CEO of Virgin

Kevin Systrom, CEO of Instagram

Sergey Brin, founder of Google

Mahbod Moghadam, founder of Rap Genius

Carl Icahn, activist investor

Just for fun, check out some of the first tweets by Business Insider Tech staff...

Alyson Shontell, Senior Editor

Jim Edwards, Deputy Editor

Jay Yarow, Senior Editor

Nicholas Carlson, Chief Correspondent

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