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Twitter was founded in 2006, but for brands it all began in 2009 when a critical mass of the nation’s biggest marketers started tweeting.

As Twitter begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange today, we take a look back at when some of the brands that have amassed the largest followings over the years published their first tweets.

We looked at the brands with 500,000 or more followers on Ad Age’s Leading National Advertisers list, as well as a few others flagged by Socialbakers. Twenty-three out of 40 began tweeting in 2009, according to a list of first tweets provided by Topsy, one of Twitter’s official data resellers. (First tweets from an additional two brands that met the qualifications couldn’t be retrieved.) That predates the launch of promoted tweets and the arrival of sales chief Adam Bain; both landed at Twitter in 2010.

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