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Remember your first tweet?
MUMBAI: After tweeting hundreds of time, do you sometimes wonder what your first tweet was? Well, just use the newly launched tool by Twitter as it celebrates its eighth birthday.
Ideas, anecdotes, opinions, experiences and achievements, among other things have been expressed in 140 characters since 2006, the year the now-much talked about social networking site was first introduced.
While in these eight years, many have posted thousands of posts on Twitter to share joy, sadness, crib or even socialise. But there was no way one could find out their first tweet, except for scrolling down the long list to see it.
So, to make life easier, Twitter is now taking people on a nostalgic ride.
And as many people are busy finding out their own first tweets, we bring to you a list of the first tweets by the media biggies.
@rupertmurdoch: Have just. Read The Rational Optimist. Great book.
@ManishTewari Good Morning world on Dec 7 th 2012
@SrBachchan: @juniorbachchan hey baby !! I made it on twitter !!! Yeeaaaaaahhhh !! … sorry..just got carried away ..safe onward flight and love
@sachin_rt: Finally the original SRT is on twitter n the first thing I’d like to do is wish my colleagues the best in the windies,
@iamsrk: hi everyone. being extremely shy i never thought i would be here. but my friend @kjohar25 insisted that i should learn to share my life.
@punit_goenka: #MaryKom is the perfect example of what ZEE has always stood for – empowering people! May she bring home the gold medal!
@cvlsrinivas: ’tis bird has flown..
@haritnagpal: Finally on Twitter too!
@SunilLulla: Hectic Parleying Before The Weekend That My Daughter Moves Cities
@rajcheerfull: Fireworks must be banned and If it cant be done then it should only be allowed in public places like playgrounds, beach, parks etc.
@jawharsircar: RBI monitoring situation: Subbarao http://bit.ly/KhG0QO
@BeingSalmanKhan: Arbaaz ne kaha ke tweet kar toh banta hai boss
@NSaina: Entering the world of Twitter for the first time! Looking forward to great interactions with Fans!!! So here goes my first tweet! 🙂
@ShereenYT: Young Turks Awarded For Consistent Coverage Of Innovation& Social Entrepreneurship At The unconvention Summit In Chennai
@itsmeanuj: nothing is happening…dont know if i am waiting for something to happen…
@parthodasgupta: off to delhi tom
@Rajesh_sethi Indian Govt’s fiscal deficit may be harder to reign in than popularly envisaged. How will Govt reduce expenditure & still be populist ? #in
@vikramchandra checking mail
@ramankalra1 DND limiting Sabeer Bhatia’s next big idea of free global txtng…#TRAI listening? …#Infocom2011
@AjitkThakur: Back on twitter after months. Under pressure from team to do some Life OK tweets! For now just saying life is OK @LifeOKTV
@LloydMathias: hanging loose
@nairsameer: Japs outsourcing to India…with Japan’s aging populace producing few new engineers, there is a real business opportunity here.
@FRIEDFOODBRAIN: Spilled ink on my pants. No really, it’s ink. The kind that helps a pen make squiggly lines that the learned called writing. Yup that ink.
@ bhogleharsha: @Nagaraju_Dovari i do too and you do too.and cricketers and authors and singers are no different from you and me
@Lk_Gupta: Ganpati statues on trucks n guys dancg arnd thm wth branches brokn fm trees. Wot?!
@Sanjay_Tripathy: Going to watch the movie ‘Seven Pounds’
@shaileshkapoor: Checking Twitter out!
@kvpops: This is my new account. Henceforth i shall tweet from this id
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WhatsApp may soon let users to pick who sees their status updates
The messaging giant is borrowing a page from Instagram’s playbook as it pushes to give users finer control over their social circles.
CALIFORNIA: WhatsApp is quietly working on a feature that could make its Status function considerably smarter and considerably more private.
According to reports from beta tracking platforms, the app is testing a tool called Status lists, which would allow users to create named groups such as close friends, family and colleagues, and control precisely which group sees each update. It is a meaningful step up from the platform’s current blunt instruments, which offer only three options: share with all contacts, exclude specific people, or manually select individuals each time.
The new feature draws an obvious comparison with Instagram’s Close Friends function, and the resemblance is unlikely to be accidental. Both platforms sit within Meta’s family, and the company has been nudging them toward a common logic of audience segmentation for some time.
The move also fits neatly into WhatsApp’s broader privacy push. The platform has been rolling out enhanced chat protections and is exploring the introduction of usernames, which would allow users to connect without exchanging phone numbers. Status lists extend that philosophy from messaging into broadcasting.
Meanwhile, Status itself has been evolving well beyond its origins as a simple photo-and-text slideshow. The feature now supports music stickers, collages, longer videos and interactive elements, pushing it closer to the social-media-style story format pioneered by Snapchat and refined by Instagram. In that context, finer audience controls are not merely a privacy feature. They are a precondition for people sharing more.
The feature remains in development and has not been confirmed for release. WhatsApp routinely tests tools that are later modified or quietly shelved. But the direction of travel is clear: the app wants Status to be a destination, not an afterthought. Letting users decide exactly who is in the audience is how it gets there.
