From Raina to Modi: Take a look at some memorable first tweets as Twitter turns 8

As Twitter turns 8, the micro-blogging site has got all nostalgic. It lets users **find out their first ever tweet** . Interestingly, it also lets you find out what everyone else tweeted, including your friends and even your favourite celebrities. So we tracked down some first tweets by some popular figures on Twitter, to see how they made their microblogging debuts: Tech giants: Apple vs Google and more In the tech space, Google’s first tweet was interesting in the form of a complicated binary code. On decoding, it simply meant – I’m Feeling Lucky.Apple hasn’t really been socially active, but started tweeted last year. After launching the iPhone 5s and 5c, Tim Cook quickly put out his first tweet that hit headlines.

  This is what Jack Dorsey, co-founder and co-creator of Twitter had to say in his first tweet that goes way back to March 2006.

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Google chief Eric Schmidt who joined Twitter in 2009 talked about an interview in his first tweet.

 World leaders Twitter has also encouraged politicians to leave aside those lengthy pointed speeches and opt for 120 characters. It may not be an easy task for world politicians to cut down on words, but so far they have been coping quite well, some better than others. Barack Obama is widely considered to be one of the more savvy politicians on Twitter. His first tweet spoke about ending the war with Iraq.

And in a sign of just how much things change, Russian President Vladimir Putin who is currently engaged in a standoff with the rest of the western world over Crimea and Ukraine had actually congratulated Obama on winning the US election in 2012!

Indian NetasIndian politicians have also taken to Twitter, owing to the rise in popularity of the social media. We looked at the first tweets of India’s two most popular politicians, Narendra Modi and Shashi Tharoor. Both interestingly spoke about travel plans in their first tweet. Narendra Modi said he will be Dahod, Gujarat while Tharoor was in Kerala. Anyone surprised?TharoorSports personalities In the sports world, Lance Armstrong wrote about his plans for the day in his first tweet.

We don’t think Tiger Woods will be very inspired with his first tweet that just asked people to visit his Twitter page.Here’s what Wayne Rooney said in his first tweet:Pope Francis also joined Twitter last year and asked his followers to pray for him.Here are some more tweets by popular celebrities: