We’re experiencing a lot of firsts here at TweetReports; first launch, first press coverage, first dance… and it got us thinking back to the days of yore — late 2008 — when our brand monitoring tool was just an idea when we posted our first Tweet. It got us wondering, besides us, what else have some of the world elite, nation’s biggest companies and most recognized brands said with their first tweet?

First Twitter Messages By World Leading Brands

Ace Hardware

@AceHardware | First Tweet: 7:23 AM Jun 3rd 2009

Welcome to the Ace Hardware Twitterstream! Stop in now thru June 8 for the Live Life Outside Sale

Allstate

@allstate | First Tweet: 3:50 PM Sep 9th 2008

How do u think Gospel Music Heritage Month should be celebrated? http://tinyurl.com/6dnk8r

Amazon

@amazon | First Tweet: 3:07 PM Feb 14th 2009

Follow Amazon Lightning Deals! @amazondeals

American Express

@AmericanExpress | First Tweet: 7:51 AM Nov 9th 2009

Hi everyone, jazzed to be here! We have lots in store & a big surprise today for Cardmember music fans-an event w a rock icon just for you!

BBC

@bbcbreaking | First Tweet: 10:37 AM Apr 22nd 2007

Hostage shot dead at Nasa office: A gunman kills a hostage and himself at Nasa’s Johnson Space Center in Texas

Best Buy

@BestBuy | First Tweet: 3:57 PM Jan 28th 2009

We’re not posting quite yet, but many of our people are already in here… follow them on Best Buy Connect! http://bit.ly/bestbuy_connect

BMW

@bmwusanews | First Tweet: 12:28 PM Apr 23rd, 2009

This is a test tweet.

Cisco Systems

@CiscoSystems | First Tweet: 12:12 AM Oct 22nd 2008

Technology Enables Retailers to Succeed in Overseas Markets http://tinyurl.com/5ma5hz

Citi

@Citi_Forward | First Tweet: 5:48 AM Feb 27th 2009

New survey on ppl and $$: 82% admitted they can do a better job managing their $. Get tips at http://www.usecreditwisely.com

CNN

@cnn | First Tweet: 1:47 PM Apr 23rd 2008

Shrimp plant likened to medieval fortress http://tinyurl.com/6evvka

Coca-Cola

@CocaCola | First Tweet: 1:33 PM May 28th 2009

RT @Kenth Better than bananas! Zoo uses Coca-Cola to snare escaped gorilla back to habitat http://tinyurl.com/o6n8jk

Comcast

@comcastcares | First Tweet: 6:11 AM Feb 24th 2009

@abdinoor DM her contact information and phone number on the account and we will reach out to her

Dell

@DellOutlet | First Tweet: 6:57 PM Jan 21st, 2008

RT @Kenth Better than bananas! Zoo uses Coca-Cola to snare escaped gorilla back to habitat http://tinyurl.com/o6n8jk

DIRECTV

@DIRECTV | First Tweet: 1:33 PM Jun 4th 2008

As many Twitter users have noticed, you can now program your DIRECTV DVR from your PC or mobile phone: http://tinyurl.com/4m9ejw

Donald Trump

@realDonaldTrump | First Tweet: 1:54 PM May 4th 2009

Be sure to tune in and watch Donald Trump on Late Night with David Letterman as he presents the Top Ten List tonight!

Dunkin’ Donuts

@DunkinDonuts | First Tweet: 9:39 AM Oct 24th 2008

Hello from DD HQ! We’re excited to be here and look forward to talking with you. Dunkin’ Beat Starbucks http://tinyurl.com/6x2b7j . Agree?

eBay

@eBay | First Tweet: 7:14 AM Feb 16th 2009

Talk with us @eBayDE (eBay in Germany) and @eBayUK (eBay in the United Kingdom) — we’ll be happy to listen to you!

FedEx

@FedexDolores | First Tweet: 9:42 AM Apr 28th 2009

@theGruMfs hi this is FedexDolores, would you like for me to help you?

Ford Motor Company

@Ford | First Tweet: 4:11 PM Oct 13th 2008

Welcome new followers! Looking forward to connecting with you, learning about you, and sharing Ford news along the way.

GE

@ge_reports | First Tweet: 1:19 PM Oct 24th 2008

Update on GE’s announcement to access the Commercial Paper Funding Facility www.gereports.com

Google

@google | First Tweet: 4:04 PM Feb 25th 2009

I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010

Harley Davidson

@harleydavidson | First Tweet: 11:47 AM Jan 27th, 2009

Check out the New Iron 883™. The latest blacked-out and stripped-down H-D Dark Custom motorcycle starts at just $7,899. h-d.com/darkcustom

Hewlett-Packard (HP)

@HPCorp | First Tweet: 9:57 AM May 12th

HP MediaSmart Connec Windows 7 to be ready for holiday shopping season: Microsoft has finall.. http://tinyurl.com/p2yvu7 SS

Honda

@honda | First Tweet: 12:46 AM Jun 15th 2009

For the latest updates from American Honda please follow @alicia_at_honda.

IBM

@s3n | First Tweet: 3:14 PM Jul 7th 2008

Great article on how to use social networking to reduce email. http://tinyurl.com/5642b6

Intel

@JobsatIntel | First Tweet: 4:27 PM Jul 2nd 2008

Hot Job from Intel Corporation: Graphics Validation Engineer – Req 547026 http://tinyurl.com/3lv263

JetBlue Airways

@JetBlue | First Tweet: 8:59 AM Jul 2nd 2007

Woo-hoo! I am the official airline of Springfield! Aye carumba!

Kmart

@KmartDealsnNews | First Tweet: 3:11 PM Feb 28th, 2009

I’m wondering if people are digging the free shipping on orders over $49…its the last day of the deal

Kodak

@kodakCB | First Tweet: 4:09 PM Apr 29th 2008

There is too much good stuff going on at Kodak to not be tweeting it! So here I go.

Lowes

@Lowes | First Tweet: 4:49 AM Jan 22nd 2009

We’re glad to finally be on Twitter. Stay tuned for promotions and home improvement tips brought to you by Lowe’s Home Improvement.

March of Dimes

@marchofdimes | First Tweet: 12:05 PM Aug 30th, 2007

Hair removal, including getting your eyebrows done or your bikini line waxed is usually safe during pregnancy

McDonald’s

@Mcdonalds | First Tweet: 2:07 PM Sep 15th 2009

We’ll be joining you very soon. Stay tuned.

Mercedes-Benz

@MercedesBenzUK | First Tweet: 10:36 AM Jun 24th 2009

New on Mercedes-Benz.tv: Mixed Tape 27 http://bit.ly/1126TB #mixedtape

Microsoft

@Microsoft | First Tweet: 1:26 PM Jul 6th 2009

MS Research article on Gazelle, the browser operating system concept http://bit.ly/YmxTY & RT: Gazelle Goes on Tour http://bit.ly/214Bt ^SL

Motorola

@motodeals | First Tweet: 10:52 AM Jun 19th 2008

Follow @MotoDeals and save! Direct from Motorola some of the best deals on phones and accessories available anywhere.

National Geographic

@National_Geo | First Tweet: 4:44 AM May 23rd 2008

We’re preparing to air Stonehenge Decoded, an all new documentary which tells the story of the ancient yet iconic landmark.

Netflix

@netflix | First Tweet: 11:31 PM Oct 2nd 2008

New York Times

@nytimes | First Tweet: 3:00 PM Oct 20th 2008

NYT NEWS ALERT: Signs of Easing Credit and Talk of Stimulus Buoy Stocks; Dow Gains About 4.6 Percent

Nike

@notofficialnike | First Tweet: 10:51 PM Jul 5th, 2008

Just do it.

Nokia

@nokia | First Tweet: 6:08 AM Jun 4th 2009

Nokia N97 mobile computer to begin selling worldwide in June: Espoo, Finland — The highly anticipated Nokia N97,.. http://u.mavrev.com/7jz4

Pepsi

@Pepsi | First Tweet: 10:18 PM Mar 29th 2009

Hello Tweeps! Let’s talk.

Sony PlayStation

@SonyPlayStation | First Tweet: 2:19 PM Feb 12th 2008

we’ll be sharing more info here on Sony’s whereabouts at GDC08, including updates on our blogger lounge:http://tinyurl.com/27yyoo

Southwest Airlines

@Southwestair | First Tweet: 3:41 PM Jul 2nd 2007

Checking out these great DING! fares through 8pm Central tonight, July 2, 2007!

Starbucks

@Starbucks | First Tweet: 5:22 PM Aug 12th 2008

Welcome to Starbucks Twitter land!

State Farm

Twitter @StateFarm | First Tweet: 8:25 AM Jun 12th, 2008

Interested in helping people? http://www.sfyourstyle.com/

Target

@Target | First Tweet: 11:57 AM Nov 22nd 2009

Hello, Twitterverse! Target here. We’ve got news and deals to share, and we’re looking forward to hearing from you.

The Home Depot

@HomeDepot | First Tweet: 10:18 AM May 16th 2008

Getting ready for big Memorial Day sales next weekend! check it out at www.homedepot.com

Toyota

@Toyota | First Tweet: 11:21 PM Apr 7th 2008

08 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach coming up April 18–20…celeb race should be fun! http://tinyurl.com/68o7tm

United Airlines

@UnitedAirlines | First Tweet: 2:31 PM Mar 18th 2009

@BreonaSmith Thanks for the support. Raised 55 million miles for Amer. Cancer Soc. http://tinyurl.com/cj2xqv

UPS

@UPS_News | First Tweet: 7:05 AM Jan 5th 2009

UPS Extends Relationship with NHRA, http://tinyurl.com/7w2vgo

Walt Disney World

@WaltDisneyWorld | First Tweet: 12:27 AM Jun 24th 2008

@twisney mk, Independence Day Sparkles At Walt Disney World Resort With Star-Spangled Pyrotechnics Performances http://tinyurl.com/4z7pbr

Whole Foods

@wholefoods | First Tweet: 2:38 PM Jun 20th 2008

need help expanding your small, local food producing business? we can help! http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/products/locallygrown/lplp

Zappos

@zappos | First Tweet: 10:00 AM Mar 8th 2008

First Tweets By 53 Of The World’s Most Recognized Brands is a post from: TweetReports. Signup now to receive a free beta invitation!

In the process of building TweetReports, I created a wish list. A list of all the really cool features to be built into our brand monitoring service. Now, having a wish list can be really great but it also comes with a downside — where potential meets frustration.

Because having a wish list is akin to a parent waiting for their child to be born. There’s great anticipation. You can hardly wait for your baby to brought into the world. And while you’re waiting, you’re constantly thinking about all the incredibly things you want for your child’s future. All of them wrapped around the potential of what can be.

And for all the things you might wish for them to become; a football star, a doctor, a ballerina, or an astronaut, they’re nowhere near able to run for a touchdown, heal the sick, dance on their toes, or fly through space. Because those things will all come in time. In the meantime, you have to force yourself to concentrate on the “now”.

And if I were to show you my wish list for TweetReports, you’d understand my frustration of seeing it’s amazing potential (far beyond what we already have planned) yet having to concentrate on the “now”.

So even though our monitoring service has yet to launch, rest assured there are many great things coming (both with the launch and in the future) to help your business with its social media brand monitoring needs.

We’re going to be releasing some demo videos soon so you can have a better understanding of the monitoring features we’re bringing you. In the meantime, I’d love to hear your own thoughts, suggestions and wish list ideas for features and tools you need to help monitor and track your business on Twitter.

Believe me, I’m listening and every one of your suggestions will be added to my list.

Thanks!

My Wish List is Totally Out of Control is a post from: TweetReports. Signup now to receive a free beta invitation!

First let me say that if you’ve never developed an online app before, it’s quite the experience. Some of which I’d rather not go through again but it’s still been a fun ride so far.

The cool news is that we’ve launched internal testing! And along with it, we’re busy creating a database of companies who have Twitter accounts. Although adding business names and links will be an automated part of the system as people sign up to use the service, we want to get a jump on things so you can really see some of the powerful features we’ve created for brand monitoring.

If you’d like to have your business name added, please send us a Twitter message

The message will look like this; (Please change “YourBusinessName” to your official business name)

@TweetReports AddMeTR YourBusinessName

That’s all for now. More to come soon. Thanks.

Hair Pulling Crazy is a post from: TweetReports. Signup now to receive a free beta invitation!

Here we are working on putting together features, package, coding, design, usability–all the things are going to creating a killer application. But while we’re concentrating on the so-called “bigger” things, we tend to quickly move through the “smaller” things—like installing a temporary launch page. Then gleaning over whether the RSS feed link actually points to the right location. Oops, my bad (fixed now).

Anyway, we were working into of the wee hours of the night on the features for your new TweetReports.com service. And what I found most challenging is pulling back on the “What if?” reins. Because when you’re creating a new online service, it’s almost impossible to stop thinking up new, really cool ideas and features you know people will love.

The problem with that is if you don’t stop yourself, you’ll never get started. You’ll just end up in an endless loop of creating more, and more, and more features, and never being able to get any of them completed. Essentially, you become the creator of your own scope creep. Ick!

Long story short, I’ve created a really long wish list. But that’s okay, it just means there will be more cool tools for you to play with later.

Which brings me to a really important question.

If there was one specific thing you could do—a feature or option you could add, remove, or change about search.twitter.com what would it be?

Now, don’t over-think it, just quickly write down the first thing that comes to mind and then email it to suggestions [at] tweetreports [dot] com.

Seriously, I really want your input on this. After-all, you’re the one who is going to use it so who better to ask than you!

And as a little “thank you” for the effort, One lucky submitter will receive a free TweetReports T-shirt.

Given that is sort of falls into the “contest” arena, here’s the rules. No age limit. Anyone can enter. By “enter”, I mean you have to email us a suggestion. You can enter as many times as you like but no duplicate suggestions by the same person. Each entry (email) has to have a different suggestion. Winner will be picked at random from all received submissions. Deadline for submissions is when we post an article saying so.

Look forward to hearing from you!

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