Yesterday when I was putting together the GC newsletter (and if you haven’t yet signed up for it, please do so), I came across a fun article Adrienne wrote almost five years ago on accounting firms’ first tweets, like PwC wishing everyone a happy St. Paddy’s Day and Deloitte being confused with how this Twitter thing works. I thought, “This has the potential for a sequel!”
So I asked Adrienne what she thought, and she said, “I don’t remember that article at all.” Not to be deterred, I started digging up old accounting firm tweets.
Now, when Adrienne wrote her article in March 2014, there was this handy-dandy tool that made it really easy to find a firm’s first tweet. Apparently that tool no longer exists. So I had to find the exact date a firm joined Twitter and then use Twitter’s Advanced Search function to enter the firm’s Twitter username and then a date range of when its first tweet might have been published. It was a pain in the ass, but I persevered.
In the end, I was a little disappointed. Nothing too embarrassing or interesting, and honestly, it was probably a huge waste of about four or five hours of my time. But I was bound to finish what I had started.
Some firms did the obligatory, “Hey, look, we’re on Twitter” first tweet:
Wipfli must have gotten tweeting advice from Deloitte and had a little trouble spelling “Twitter”:
For EisnerAmper, sharing is caring:
Does anyone remember going to the big data demo at Baker Tilly’s booth during Oracle’s Big Data at Work event? At least BT used hashtags correctly:
Plante Moran left us hanging—top what?
Some firms went hard with the tax advice right out of the gate:
And at Withum, come for the tax advice, stay for the dancing:
CliftonLarsenAllen’s first tweet was about its recent nuptials:
And Moss Adams, you do realize there are some letters missing in Rick Anderson’s name, right?
And here’s my first tweet. Always the hockey meatball:
I’ll keep updating this article if I come across any other fun first tweets from accounting firms. Or maybe we can do a Part 3 in another four years.
Nah.
We knew it was only a matter of time before Jim Quigley rounded up enough interns to run his Twitter account for him and it seems that day has finally come. While we won’t openly admit to hoping he immediately engaged in common Twitter faux pi like tweeting in all caps or speaking to others as if they could hear him without using the all important @, we’ve thoroughly scanned his account and can barely find anything to bag on.