Twitter 10th anniversary: What were the first tweets of tweet-friendly footballers?

The social network is celebrating its 10th birthday today

'Louis saha on Twitter. Can't believe i'm twitting.' (Getty Images)

As you’ve probably noticed by now if you have been using the internet today, Twitter is now 10 years old.

The social network has been marking its special day by encouraging users to tweet with the #LoveTwitter hashtag because on 21 March 2006, at 9.50pm Pacific Standard Time, founder and current CEO Jack Dorsey sent the first-ever tweet - “just setting up my twttr”.

It’s alright, if not exactly as memorable as "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you”, and all the commotion got us wondering - what were the first tweets sent by a selection of tweet-friendly footballers and were they any more interesting?

Using the #FirstTweet tool, we’ve dug back through the accounts of several ex-pros.

It turns out, despite many using variations on the ‘welcome to my official Twitter account’ and ‘lol I don’t know how to work this’ standards, a few of them had something funny, interesting or just downright bewildering to say.

Footballers’ first tweets

Wayne Rooney

Louis Saha

Dean Windass

Ashley Cole

Michael Owen

Robert Earnshaw

Aaron Lennon

Emmanuel Frimpong

Gary Neville

Phil Neville

Jimmy Bullard

Dion Dublin

Mido

Nile Ranger

Jens Lehmann

Do you know any others worthy of inclusion? Tweet us @indyfootball.