Twitter Time Machine: Which Poker Personality Had the Best First Tweet?

Pamela Maldonado

Mar 20, 2014 7 min read

Today marks the eighth anniversary of Twitter and its iconic bird flying into our lives. To celebrate this day, Twitter released the First Tweet search tool, which allows users to search their own account or other accounts to find their first tweet.

Here’s @PokerNews' first tweet:

Hello, poker players! We are starting to Tweet about poker. Here we will provide some poker news and gossip, so please follow us.
— PokerNews (@PokerNews)

It’s fair to say that we have come a long way from that awkward first step into the realm of 140 characters or less.

We’ve searched through some of our favorite poker personalities to find the best #FirstTweets. Expectedly, most were tournament updates. But others were fun, some were quirky, and others were just plain weird.

Here’s a look at some of our favorite first tweets:

Dan was just being Dan.

If Selma Hayek was my sister and she looked like she did in desperado I would make sex to her.
— Dan Bilzerian (@DanBilzerian)

Daniel was being sarcastic.

What a great day, found twitter and miraculously got my Facebook account back! Lucky me. More stuff for me to waste my time on.
— Daniel Negreanu (@RealKidPoker)

Nolan was being rebellious.

Fuck Twitter
— Nolan Dalla (@nolandalla)

Dan Shak was confused.

how do you do this
— Daniel Shak (@daniel_shak)

Phil was probably not even Phil.

Now Joey and Barry want me to twitter for pokerroad nation. What the hell is pokerroad nation?
— Phil Ivey (@philivey)

Brian was living life.

No better time to start twittering then when I'm actually doing something...! Second night in Salvador, Brazil... about 2goout on the town!
— Brian Rast (@tsarrast)

Phil was being insightful.

People don’t plan to fail. They fail to plan. Make a plan. Plans are good.
— Phil Laak (@PhilLaak)

Wait, what?

"why does pumpy tudors have a mustache" - vivek rajkumar
— Jason Somerville (@JasonSomerville)

Dan was doing the right thing looking out for his safety.

Just signed up in case Twitter takes over the world, I wanna be on there good side!
— Dan Fleyshman (@DanFleyshman)

Jonathan was getting full off sweets.

Going to jelly belly factory with Katy. Woohoo.
— Jonathan Little (@JonathanLittle)

Jungleman was trying to make a funny.

lol im ordering a sandwhich and 40 yo guy comes up to me, shakes my hand, and tells me his name is "goose" #wtf
— Daniel Cates (@junglemandan)

Jason was practicing his promotions.

just signed up for twitter... GOSH pokerstars is awesome
— Jason Mercier (@JasonMercier)

Kara was using logic.

has always been a twit so twittering seems the logical next step
— Kara Scott (@KaraOTR)

Marcel was making use of his 140-character limit with his commas and digital laughs.

Im in Malta,, great temp. sunny and moist,, looking over the bay,, nothing to complain,,, for the moment ,,,, hahaha
— Marcel Luske (@MarcelLuske)

Ty was admitting he was late to the party.

OK @mattglantz, I am hiding no longer. Won't promise song of day, poetic quotes or what I eat on dinner break, but happy to be in 2013.
— Ty Stewart (@wsopSUITd)

Norman was writing the first chapter in his book of quotes.