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Ten Top Tweets: If famous people in history tweeted

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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

Need more top Tweets? After reading our favorites list, read more results on Twitter and follow your favorites!

Further Reading:

About Troy Janisch

Troy Janisch, Publisher of Social Meteor, is a digital marketing professional and social media beatnik. He is a contributor to SmartBrief on Social Media. Troy leads the marketing team at Sentry Insurance, but don’t let that scare you. He rarely talks about insurance in mixed company [grin]. Like a good social media program, SocialMeteor.com is all about content. It’s not a consulting company or marketing agency.

  • http://WWW.KDPAINE.COM Katie Paine

    I started this meme at the instigation of my friend Bob Cannon, a freelance writer and editor who inspired the first one with this:

    87 years ago, our forefathers fought 4 a more perfect union so more guys could die here and let me talk about better angels of our nature.

  • http://www.linkedin.com/in/troyjanisch Troy Janisch

    Always good to track down folks behind our favorite memes. Katie: @kdpaine

  • Mark Anderson

    I prefer the following variation to number 8 (regular expression style): /(bb|[^b]{2})/