Twitter is ten today, meaning that it will soon be ready to undergo some troubling biological changes and head off to secondary school in a bid to increase its attention span.
To celebrate its birthday, we have decided to look back at the first tweets sent by a number of Irish sports stars:
Conor McGregor
We love the idea that McGregor had already assumed he had a large enough following to warrant staffing out his twitter account before it had even started.
Brian O'Driscoll
Meta.
George Hook
Is Hook the first man to use twitter as a verb?
Dave Kearney
Wherever did the Boring Kearney twitter account get their idea from?
Des Cahill
Cheer up Des, Souness has only gone as far as TV3. Which isn't too far away. Geographically at least.
Shane Lowry
Lowry is a quick learner: he is among our favourite users.
Jack Grealish
A disappointing lack of shamrock emojis.
Paul Kimmage
Kimmage has since revised his opinion.
Cillian Sheridan
Sheridan summing up the eternal mental struggle of every student, everywhere.
James McClean
The current account was McClean's return to twitter. Resolute.
Eamon McGee
McGee tackling endorsements in his own, inimitable way.
Ronan O'Gara
ROG knows his ABCs: Always Be Closing.
The GAA
The GAA understand the Art Of The URL.
The FAI
It had to be a ticketing issue.
The IRFU
Nostalgic.
Along with that, here are a few of our international favourites:
Austin Healey
We still aren't sure what the answer has proven to be.
Henry Winter
Not afraid to call it.
Joey Barton
Beware cheap alternatives.
Gary Lineker
As it turns out, Lineker was opening himself up for the same joke over and over again.
Wayne Rooney
Incredible. Rooney mistook twitter for text messaging.
Andy Carroll
Carroll's first tweet was a RT of this artistic impression of him.
Stephen Jones
We've got no idea. We are blocked like the rest of you.
...And Our Own
Agenda-setting.
