Do you remember your first time? Twitter launches tool to help find your first tweet

In celebration of its 8^th birthday Twitter has launched FirstTweet, a tool that helps users find the very first message they sent.

We take a look at what some of Australia’s top startup folk had to say in their first tweet.

First off, here’s mine, clearly not aware of the location irrelevance of social media:

Anyone here from Perth, Australia?

— Bronwen Clune (@bronwen) February 3, 2007

And StartupSmart journalist Rose Powell took the opportunity to be excited about being on Twitter:

@kirifarrell I know, I feel like this weekend went so fast. And looook, I’m on Twitter!

— Rose Powell (@rosepowell) May 13, 2011

The Fetch’s Kate Kendall’s first tweet was in that awkward third person thing we used to do:

is being a night owl

— Kate Kendall (@KateKendall) June 15, 2008

Atlassian cofounder Mike Cannon-Brookes tweeted about tweeting:

is making his first twitter post – and feels like a twit – albeit a connected one apparently!

— Mike Cannon-Brookes (@mcannonbrookes) January 7, 2008

Muru-D’s Mick Liubinskas wanted us to know where he was:

Working from home in Woolloomooloo

— Mick Liubinskas (@liubinskas) September 25, 2006

Canva Founder Melanie Perkins went for something fairly safe and vanilla:

Enjoying San Fran and all the exciting tech events it has to offer.

— Melanie Perkins (@MelanieCanva) June 5, 2011

Twitter has asked users share their initial messages using #FirstTweet.