
This week, our Ten Top Tweets explores favorite responses to the question: “What if famous people in history had Twitter?”
Ten Top Tweets is a weekly compilation based on a Twitter Meme — trends, activities or sayings associated with Twitter. In this case, the Twitter Meme is #iftheytweeted.
One of the most popular Twitter Memes is Follow Friday (#followfriday), which invites all users to suggests other Twitter users to follow, each Friday.
10. Claude Shannon: “A Tweet becomes information when it changes the knowledge of the receiver” @StraightFacePro
9. JFK: “Ich ben ein Twitterer”
@andrewcareaga
8. William Shakespeare: “2B or not 2B”
@rsomers
7. John Paul Jones: “I have not yet begun to tweet.”
@conniereece
6. Sarah Palin: “You know I can Tweet Russia right from my backyard”
@StraightFacePro
5. Shakespeare: “@romeo, @romeo, where b @romeo?”
@chankster
4. Marlon Brando: “I coulda been a tweetender, I coulda been somebody’s tweep.”
@danavshelley
3. Shakespeare: “Rome tweetup tonite 2 bury @juliuscaesar, not praise. Please RT.”
@DavidBThomas
2. René Descartes: “I tweet, therefore IM”
@DoreenatDMS
1. Abraham Lincoln: “Going to Ford’s Theatre tonight w/ wife + friends. Anyone know if ‘Our American Cousin’ is any good?”
@michaelmolinar
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