Twitter Turns 10: A Look Back At The Music Industry’s First Tentative Tweets

Twitter is turning 10 and to celebrate we used their time machine to share the first tweets of more than a dozen music industry luminaries from Bob Lefsetz and Yoko Ono and Lyor Cohen (remember him?) to Nancy Sinatra.

Music commentator Bob Lefsetz stays on point –

Prince #1 with 185,000 units. Big box paradigm rules! (U2 still not platinum, 36,000 this week, hasn't even broken 800,000).
— Bob Lefsetz (@Lefsetz) April 7, 2009

As usual, music industry journalist Stuart Dredge beat most of us, signing on in 2007 –

Anyway, just signed up to Twitter, I think it counts as work. Trying to figure out what this is all about.
— Stuart Dredge (@stuartdredge) March 21, 2007

Former WMG top exec Lyor Cohen uncharacteristically didn't join the conversation until 2014 -

Very proud of @300 & our new partnership with @TwitterMusic
— Lyor Cohen (@lyorcohen) February 2, 2014

David Lowery focused on his music rather than skewer the music industry –

cracker songwriting session this week.
— davidclowery (@davidclowery) April 20, 2008

Pandora's Tim Westergren was his usual well behaved self but seemed to forged Twitter's 140 character limit –

Time to join the Twitter fun. I'm going to try to keep it interesting, relevant and useful. I welcome guidance as I get going…
— Tim Westergren (@timwestergren) April 20, 2009

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek kept it simple –

Watching Rome:
Watching Rome By eldsjal
8 minutes ago. http://tinyurl.com/2l8zrn
— Daniel Ek (@eldsjal) January 5, 2008

Orchard exec Scott Ambrose Reilly shared a SXSW meeting with Stephen King –

@stephenking shows up @SXMOutlaw and says @mojonixon "I'm a big, big fan". @johnmellencamp shows up King says "Meet my idol, Mojo".
— Scott Ambrose Reilly (@bulletheadnyc) June 7, 2013

Self describe "music tech nerd with a bad social media habit" J Herskowitz was looking for help –

— J Herskowitz (@jherskowitz) December 16, 2006

I was really, really unimaginative –

hello, world.
— hypebot (@hypebot) July 16, 2008

Britney Spears promised insider access –

Welcome to Britney Spears' Twitter! Follow the latest in Britney news and get updates straight from Britney and her entourage.
— Britney Spears (@britneyspears) October 10, 2008

Taylor Swift showed that, from the start, she understood what Twitter was good for –