![People holding mobile phones are silhouetted against a backdrop projected with the Twitter logo in this file illustration photo taken in Warsaw September 27, 2013.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140911234313im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/7/21/1405898098626/afad4a17-e886-4066-bd72-63bc0b558d79-460x276.jpeg)
A lot of news these days comes from, or is about, Twitter. Entertainment magazines and shows seem to be entirely dependant on celebrity Tweets, like those fish that feed on the random things that fall out of a sharks mouth.
It's not all random utterances and spats though. Time magazine recently ran an article about the most intelligent celebrities on Twitter. And those of us in the science field are regularly encouraged to Tweet about our research.
But what if these two approaches were combined? What if famous scientists were on Twitter, at the time of their greatest discoveries? Obviously the vast majority of celebrated scientific discoveries occurred before Twitter even existed. But this is the internet, where nothing is impossible!
(Explanatory links in the titles, for those not familiar with the references)
Pythagoras
![Pythagoras Twitter](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140911234313im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/7/21/1405925714746/084b2599-9e43-4872-b846-43c91f39986c-460x371.jpeg)
Andreas Vesalius
![Andreas Vesalius on Twitter](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140911234313im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/7/21/1405925806856/bddcc6bb-9f10-4b19-b812-06101686471f-393x420.jpeg)
Tycho Brahe
![Tycho Brahe on Twitter](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140911234313im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/7/21/1405926026685/e9a6d509-dc4c-44a6-bada-09a3a62bb98d-460x433.jpeg)
Rosalind Franklin
![Rosalind Franklin on Twitter](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140911234313im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/7/21/1405926188925/7e3e18c0-f9e0-41d0-a323-f5ed2d845ca0-398x420.jpeg)
Charles Darwin
![Charles Darwin on Twitter](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140911234313im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/7/21/1405926350362/6fa2fec4-3880-445c-b4fb-84b8e9367638-460x427.jpeg)
Thomas Edison
![Thomas Edison on Twitter](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140911234313im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/7/21/1405926493206/4211d2c1-4b29-4df8-9c4f-c36b3653d399-415x420.jpeg)
Erwin Schrödinger
![Erwin Schrodinger on Twitter](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140911234313im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/7/21/1405926654076/99e70191-e43b-46b2-b81c-8f7cea7d1675-460x421.jpeg)
Jonas Salk
![Jonas Salk on Twitter](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140911234313im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/7/21/1405926778004/71af4af0-5756-4cfd-add8-5970f5e99602-460x414.jpeg)
Phineas Gage
![Phineas Gage on Twitter](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140911234313im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/7/21/1405926900327/295a489e-7437-4a48-bfd9-85b15ab32278-402x420.jpeg)
Florence Nightingale
![Florence Nightingale on Twitter](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140911234313im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/7/21/1405927127317/2994b926-7ac8-4384-9535-c0605eb34f4c-460x391.jpeg)
Ivan Pavlov
![Ivan Pavlov on Twitter.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140911234313im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/7/21/1405927239249/b5b43a52-b614-43c8-9031-58dbaea11f6c-460x438.jpeg)
Alan Turing
![Alan Turing on Twitter.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140911234313im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/7/21/1405927366799/d1a7fe54-6452-42b5-8043-fd538dd82d9e-460x393.jpeg)
Dean Burnett is, quite obviously, on Twitter, @garwboy