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Indicative first tweets from some of your favourite local media

The Province's Erik Rolfsen hipped me to an interesting tool which allows you to go back and see the first tweets of anybody on Twitter, so I figured I would take you on an interesting journey into the histories of some Vancouver media that we follow
Bob Kronbauer
Bob Kronbauer
The Province's Erik Rolfsen hipped me to an interesting tool which allows you to go back and see the first tweets of anybody on Twitter, so I figured I would take you on an interesting journey into the histories of some Vancouver media that we follow from our main @VIAwesome account. Some of their first tweets are like prophecies of things to come and others... not so much. For instance, Scout Magazine's first. Of course they were talking about their website that they were working on but I instantly thought of the innards of some animal that they would be feasting on and writing about in the future as they became the city's leading source for food culture... Here's what our friendly competition Karm at Vancity Buzz was working on in the early days... And our other friendly competition Rebecca Bollwitt was on message letting people know she'd be bringing them into her life... The folks at CBC Vancouver were stoked on their jazz stream (which is good to cook sausages to!)... The Globe and Mail BC's first was linking to a Frances Bula story about land use... And Frances' first was about how she had hoped to use Twitter. I feel like this has changed a lot since she now actively engages in dialogue and, as a journalist entrenched in civic issues, educates her tweeps on subjects most of us don't fully understand... Globe arts reporter Marsha Lederman launched with her sense of humour showing, pitch perfect... And Andrea Woo (now a reporter for the Globe) was still working as a freelance hip hop journo... Jeff Lee from the Sun tweeted regarding a piece about the changing dynamic of media, a subject I still see him tweet about to this day... Charlie Smith of the Georgia Straight was obviously getting advice from the next generation of journos on how to use the service in his first tweet... Jill Krop from Global/BC1 was living it up with other media friends of hers... Our first tweet was a little more mundane... And was eerily similar to that of the Province's... And Erik Rolfsen from the Province, who showed me #FirstTweet, was dissecting and researching Twitter even back then in 2007... Go HERE to find the first tweets of people you follow!