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 , 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.