The first tweets of some of football’s biggest accounts are priceless

Social media is just a part of life now, and football is no different.

Most footballers have both a Facebook and Twitter account, whether they themselves manage them, or their 'people' do. And of course each and every club has an online presence from which to put the best possible spin on the latest news. But when web-based interaction was still in its infancy, everyone was still trying to get their heads around how best to convey themselves. And of course there are the late adopters who made their belated decision to jump on the bandwagon very obvious. We thought we'd delve into the archives to pull out the first tweets of some of football's biggest accounts, and the virgins' tweets were certainly eye-opening... Liverpool and Manchester City were early adopters and it showed, with personal tweets from the respective admins... https://twitter.com/LFC/status/1216059703 https://twitter.com/ManCity/status/1475809694 Newcastle United's first effort was even more amateur... https://twitter.com/NUFC/status/1629560506?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Arsenal, Man United and Chelsea were boringly polished from the outset... https://twitter.com/Arsenal/status/1594572829 https://twitter.com/ManUtd/status/354865147631775744 https://twitter.com/ChelseaFC/status/1437235995 Whilst Everton and Spurs jumped straight in, no intro, just cracking on with the news of the day... https://twitter.com/Everton/status/1048866823?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/SpursOfficial/status/15619243125 As for Stoke City, their first tweet was...very Stoke City... https://twitter.com/stokecity/status/2043455274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Gary Lineker admitted it was his son George who coaxed him onto Twitter (and the many millions of 'shat' replies)... https://twitter.com/GaryLineker/status/161152035616595969 Whilst Arsenal fan Piers Morgan took the piss out of himself before anyone could... https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/9679751560040448 Joey Barton, Wojciech Szczesny and Jens Lehmann all joined to thwart the copycats, but only the latter managed to sound like the Terminator... https://twitter.com/Joey7Barton/status/73785602138574848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/13Szczesny13/status/29407989284?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/jenslehmann/status/150193635210702848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Gary Neville's first act was to take the piss out of brother Phil... https://twitter.com/GNev2/status/66585451389136898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Whilst Robbie Savage was straight in talking about pimping up his ride... https://twitter.com/RobbieSavage8/status/10617395001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Wayne Rooney and Harry Kane are our personal favourites for these wonderfully random efforts... https://twitter.com/WayneRooney/status/61593468186791936 https://twitter.com/HKane/status/28478870344704000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Both Aaron Ramsey and David Alaba managed to include incongruous references to serious world events in otherwise cheery messages... https://twitter.com/aaronramsey/status/46205768235622400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/David_Alaba/status/48836013392543744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw You may have assumed Jamie Vardy would be tweeting about chatting shit or indeed getting banged, but his first act was a generous retweet for a commendable cause... https://twitter.com/JackRowley7/status/159668253306785792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw We think (hope) Jimmy Bullard was joking with this effort... https://twitter.com/jimmybullard/status/288674356568154112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Whilst Michael Owen started as he meant to go on with thi...Zzzzzzzzz https://twitter.com/themichaelowen/status/50593305515401216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Want to win a free TV or iPad? Enter the draw to win one by taking part in our #MenUnmasked survey.