Someone – who shall remain nameless – claimed last week to be among the first in the European Commission to use Twitter. That got me thinking about those of us who were there early on (pre-2010) and who and what we are. This is a list I have drawn-up using the fabulous howlonghaveyoubeentweeting.com website (thanks to @simonblackley). I’d love to have updates about errors, omissions etc. Please comment, or email me.
@euonymblog (started as @EUlondonrep) 14 January 2009
@dicknieuwenhuis 16 March 2009
@ecfin 1 April 2009
@EUinNL 25 May 2009
@Eurireland 5 June 2009
@ECSpokesKoen 5 July 2009
@TonyLBxl 11 July 2009
@EC_AVservice 13 July 2009
@EU_EEAS (started as @EU_Relex) 8 October 2009
@EU_careers 9 October 2009
@ECDevelopment 13 October 2009
Update 2 February 4.30
@KevinCoates 26 March 2007
@sandracavallo 26 August 2008
@sclopit 30 November 2008
@joehennon 26 January 2009
@piotr_ec 8 April 2009
@EU_Consumer 12 May 2009
According to the website linked in your post, Commission official @sclopit is there since 30 November 2008
Amazing, have never come across him/her before!
Oh, I had no idea SPP boss Koen had been a ‘lurker’ for more than a year before we made his profile public. ;o)
Yes I was surprised by that. I wonder if he had it under another name before. He was in the Development cabinet after all and the DG started quite early
@stefanosoro: 10 June 2009
Ciao!
Love the list, sorry I just love lists! But this one is a bit odd, since its like saying who first used Lotus 1-2-3 to dbase. Who cares?
It was just idle musing really. Someone said they were first, I thought they were wrong, which got me to thinking, who was first? But the real value of it is that I have connected with a new load of people.