Twitter's First Tweets Ever

I was reading an inspiring article by @dom on how twitter was born. (Thanks twitter trends)

But, what really caught my attention was Dom Sagolla's first twitter message:

@dom: oh this is going to be addictive

I thought to my self, how cool would it be to gather all of twitter founders' first messages.

founders = ["@Jack", "@Biz", "@Noah", "@Crystal", "@Jeremy", "@Adam", "@TonyStubblebine", "@Ev", "@Dom", "@Rabble", "@RayReadyRay", "@Florian", "@TimRoberts", "@Blaine"]

The problem was that the "since: until:" twitter's search parameters didn't really worked out for me, so with a little Ruby, Nokogiri, Sort & Awk magic the following twitter transcript was compiled:

20 @Jack: just setting up my twttr | reply
21 @Biz: just setting up my twttr | reply
22 @Noah: just setting up my twttr | reply
23 @Crystal: just setting up my twttr | reply
25 @TonyStubblebine: just setting up my twttr | reply
26 @Adam: just setting up my twttr | reply
28 @Ev: just setting up my twttr | reply
29 @Jack: inviting coworkers | reply
30 @Biz: getting my odeo folks on this deal | reply
31 @Dom: just setting up my twttr | reply
32 @Rabble: just setting up my twttr | reply
33 @Dom: oooooooh | reply
35 @Jack: waiting for dom to update more | reply
36 @TimRoberts: just setting up my twttr | reply
37 @Dom: waiting for Jack to update more first | reply
38 @Dom: oh this is going to be addictive | reply
39 @TimRoberts: Planning for Sprint #4 | reply
40 @Biz: wishing I had another sammich | reply
43 @Dom: following Mer | reply
47 @Biz: having some flowery orange pekoe tea | reply
48 @TimRoberts: setting up my mac mini | reply
51 @Jack: lunch | reply
53 @Dom: free lunch | reply
54 @Biz: feeling pains in my back | reply
55 @Biz: using twttr.com | reply
56 @Dom: twttr my nttr | reply
57 @Biz: going out to do an errand | reply
58 @Dom: already addicted to twttr.com | reply
59 @Dom: high on sugar | reply
60 @Biz: settling back in | reply
61 @TonyStubblebine: watching connections on FlashCom | reply
62 @Jack: working on SMS in | reply
70 @RayReadyRay: just setting up my twttr | reply
73 @Dom: sugar crash | reply
75 @Ev: checking out twttr | reply
76 @Biz: kinda twttring around and such | reply
78 @Biz: walking the dog | reply
81 @Jack: changing status through my blackberry browser | reply
82 @TonyStubblebine: is there a way to add friends without typing in phone numbers? | reply
83 @Dom: @Errand | reply
86 @Biz: eating little snacks that livy made | reply
87 @Dom: Heading back (via nokia) | reply
88 @Biz: wishing there were more little snacks | reply
89 @Jack: on my way to drawing class | reply
90 @Biz: <a href="http://bizstone.com">announcing a blog update</a> | reply
91 @Dom: waiting for Buzz ;) | reply
92 @Jack: drawing naked people | reply
93 @Biz: doin' some emailz | reply
94 @Biz: waiting for livy to get back from wildcare | reply
95 @Adam: pumping iron | reply
96 @Adam: put some rss on my mp3 | reply
97 @Noah: Oh crap, I think I might be getting that f'in cold | reply
99 @Biz: learning about the earthquake I felt earlier today | reply

I have added a reply link to each one of them, so you can easily reply to those historical tweets..

enjoy ;)





p.s
It would be cool if Twitter can publish their own, more comprehensive list..

Ruby 1.9 is Production Ready - The Fastest Ruby Ever

Exciting news people:

Years of hard work reached a crescendo today as Yuki Sonoda announced the release of Ruby 1.9.1, the first stable release of the Ruby 1.9 series of MRI. In effect, 1.9.1 replaces 1.8.7 as the latest stable release of "Matz's" Ruby interpreter although (as we'll cover below) it's not entirely that simple.

We'll be doing a roundup of Ruby 1.9 related links and resources soon here on Ruby Inside, but if you want to get up to speed with what Ruby 1.9 is all about right now, I'd recommend checking out the Migrating to Ruby 1.9 presentation by Bruce Williams, Ruby 1.9: What to Expect by Sam Ruby, and James Edward Gray's Getting Code Ready for Ruby 1.9. Mauricio Fernandez's Changes in Ruby 1.9 is a more exhaustive list and is still pretty good although it was last updated over a year ago.

Source: Ruby Inside

Download: ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.1-p0.tar.bz2

And here's a nice simple tutorial on How to compile and install Ruby 1.9.1 on Mac OS X Leopard