On March 21, 2006, a small team in San Francisco tested a simple product. It was a 'texting megaphone': Send an SMS message to the number 40404, and the service would forward it to all your friends.
That afternoon, Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet:
Life was never the same after that. (Was that dramatic enough for you)
Dave, Falen, and Steve-O all started tweeting soon after and on the 12th anniversary of the social media networks birth these are the first six people each of us started to follow.
Dave
Falen
Steve-O