Twitter wasn’t around in 2001. But if it was, we can assume that the world would quickly turn to the social media platform for breaking details of the tragic day.

Today, 13 years after terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people in New York City, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pa., President George W. Bush’s press secretary Ari Fleischer is recounting the events of that fateful day on Twitter. Thanks to Storify and CNBC, we have them all compiled below.

The tweets begin at 8:40a ET on Sept. 11, 2001.