Founded on March 21, 2006, by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams, Twitter has become one of the leading online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".
On March 21, 2014, when marking its eighth anniversary, Twitter launched a service that allows Twitter users to see their very first tweets.The Kenyan Twitter community, popularly known as Kenyans on Twitter (KOT) was formed around 2007/2008.According to a research by Portland Communications and Tweetminister, Kenyans on Twitter (KOT) are ranked the second most active in Africa after South Africans.Have you ever wondered who was the first Kenyan citizen to own a twitter account?According to 'Followerwonk', a tool for Twitter analytics, Tirus Gathere Njuguna (@tirusnjuguna) was the first Kenyan to open a Twitter account.
Tirus Njuguna. [Photo/ ghafla.com]
He first registered with Twitter on April 10, 2007, one year after its inception.However, he posted his first tweet a year later, on April 6, 2008.Though he is the first Kenyan to join Twitter, Njuguna only has 170 followers and follows 89 people.Surprisingly, Njuguna has since made a total of 149 tweets to date.#historynow