Imagine if some of history's greatest movers and shakers had been able to Twitter.
Imagine if some of history's greatest movers and shakers had been able to Twitter. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

The micro-blogging tool Twitter has become a wildly popular way to communicate, paving the way for a culture where we can express even the most complex ideas in 140 characters or less.

How might Twitter have been used to convey the seminal moments in history?


Genesis

*** Jhova

Heaven, Earth: done and done. Now what this joint needs is some Light. Abracadabra! Damn I’m good

00:01 AM from Twitterfeed


Fall of the Roman Empire

*** romulusaugustus

Barbarians @ the gate. !$#%, party’s over

9:47 AM September 4 476 from web in reply to GermansAreComing


The Mongol invasions

*** GenghisKhan

damn it feels good to be a gangsta http://tinyurl.com/d4vcmf

21:53 PM August 3 1214 from web


The discovery of the theory of gravity

*** IzzyNewton

Just puttering round the garden WHOA DID YOU SEE THAT APPLE FALL NOT FAR FROM THE TREE? ‘Tis the birth of a terrible cliché

15:09 PM May 1666 from Twitterberry


Salem witch trials

*** Goody2shoes

RT @ Abby STOP SNITCHING!! Who you callin a snitch, WITCH? This would make a good play

16:27 PM February 17 1692 from web


The publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species

*** ChuckD

Yo yo check out my holiday snaps http://tinyurl.com/cahhjm Galapagos REPRESENT!!!! wildlife be off the hook – but where the ladies at?

09:51 AM November 24 1859 from web


The Toronto Maple Leafs’ Stanley Cup win in 1967

*** JohnnyBower

Booyaaaaaa Let’s do it again next year

02:43 AM May 2 1967 from Twitterberry


The U.S. moon landing

*** NeilArmstrong

It DOES look like cheese up here. Also: it’s ASS COLD! 1 step for man, 1 giant-ass step for… Dude, I gotta pee

7:12 AM July 20 1969 from web in reply to MissionCTRL


The fall of the Soviet Union

*** GORBY

Glasnost came back to bite me on the ass. Damn Ronnie U smoothtalker! USSR breaking up but my Nobel Peace Prize aint never gonna secede

19:41 PM September 18 1990 from web


Barack Obama’s inauguration speech

*** barryo

Wazzup, D.C.? Hopey says put away childish things (like W.). Economy/AlQaeda = no sweat. America 2.0, baby! (Buy my book.)

12:07 PM January 20 2009 from Twitterberry

Andre Mayer writes about the arts for CBCNews.ca.

All pictures courtesy of Getty Images, except witch photo, courtesy of Associated Press.