{"id":116356,"date":"2015-01-07T07:35:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T05:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=116356"},"modified":"2015-01-07T07:37:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T05:37:53","slug":"who-tweeted-it-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/116356-who-tweeted-it-first.html","title":{"rendered":"Who Tweeted it first?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever wondered when was the first tweet about famous names that were later on everyone’s lips, such as a US senator named Barack Obama who was to be elected president?<\/p>\n

It can be easy to lose sight of where it all started amid the retweeting of interesting news that fills the microblogging site.<\/p>\n

But now it’s possible to track down the answers (Obama: first reference on November 18, 2006) thanks to the Indian-based search engine Who Tweeted it First. It finds the first time any keyword was tweeted.<\/p>\n

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, now often regarded as the world’s most powerful woman, was first referred to on Twitter on January 9, 2007, the site shows.<\/p>\n

Who Tweeted it First<\/a> was developed by Amit Agarwal of India and searches Twitter all the way back to its origins in 2006. Search results are returned with a link to the original tweet.<\/p>\n

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