20th January 2010 by Alex Wilhelm
Bill Gates has joined Twitter and is tweeting away using the web interface.
Twitter employee @caroline has confirmed this.
Of course, Bill Gates is the famed man from Microsoft who brought us a talking paperclip and Windows 1.0 pillow cases, if you remember that far back.
You can follow him on Twitter: @BillGates.
Bill only has 241 followers, and tweeted his first tweet just three hours ago. If you send him an @ now, he might just get back to you. But then again, he is Bill Gates.
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Already more than 2632 followers + 1 (me)
3140 now… :)
Yep the man himself. Twitter also added a verified account badge to the profile :-)
Woop!! Is this a scoop! I wonder how long this will stay secret! Nice. 8o))
Thanks!
now it will be the number one actor above someone bet? @speedhot
haha go to his twitter page look at the followers its at like 50,000! then refresh the page and it will be up by a few thousand thats funny to watch.
Ah, Twitter: tool for the “little people” who cannot afford to have people socially network on their behalf.
cool, I wonder if he's the real one
Nice of Twitter to reserve the user name BillGates for this long. Glad he didn't have to go with THE_REAL_BILL_GATES a la Shaquille O'Neal: http://twitter.com/THE_REAL_SHAQ
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Cool!
I believe BillG chose twitter because it doesn't require him to approve all “following” request.
He is adding at rate of 5 – 10 users PER refresh. I just tracked it for 5 minutes, here is what I found. Starting at 7:00 PM PST up to 7:04, 95,146 at 7 even, 95,408 at 7:01, 95,641, 95,855, 96,084 & 96,262 respectively. That means he is growing by 232 followers the first minute, 233 on the second, 214 the third, 229 fourth & 178 at 7:05 PM. Only Bill Gates could grow at 223.3 followers per MINUTE. WOW.
cool!!
He now has over 9000! followers.
Bill Gates on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/BillGates
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Bill gates joins facebook too http://www.facebook.com/BillGates
Bill gates joins facebook too http://www.facebook.com/BillGates
It's right time for him to join Twitter.
passive aggresive much?
wow…great job mr bill
If I'm not mistaken your headline should actually read Bill Gates Re-joins Twitter. On Feb 16 2009 he started tweeting as @borg1, an account that's still active with over 13K followers, including myself since Aug 1. I guess switching to using his real name's a bit more meaningful ;-)
If I'm not mistaken your headline should actually read Bill Gates Re-joins Twitter. On Feb 16 2009 he started tweeting as @borg1, an account that's still active with over 13K followers, including myself since Aug 1. I guess switching to using his real name's a bit more meaningful ;-)
Gates will be back running Microsoft from 2012 and there you go with Twitter under his belt too hmmm … MS-Twitter how does that sound?
It is about time he jumped on the craze!
Bill Gates arrives on Twitter, what are you waiting for?
It's right time for him to join Twitter.
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so billgates doing advertisement of twitter
It's right time for him to join Twitter and to connect with the people.
Great!!!!!!!!!
Bill Gates has joined twitter because he directly connecting people and feedback him company.
Great job.. Mr. Gates. It’s right time for him to join Twitter and connects with world and gets feedback for his company.
I am surprised to see that Bill Gates has already 50,000 followers in twitter & no of them rapidly increasing day by day at a very high extend. Great Bill Gates.
I believe Bill Gates chose twitter because it doesn’t require him to approve all “following” request.
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It’s right time for him to join Twitter and to connect with the people.
Bill Gates Joins Twitter – Uses The Web Interface-its an interesting post.Appreciable work
I am a big fan of BillGates. I too follow him via Twitter. Fantastic….
Cool, almost i cannt believed.
so finally the father of microsoft is in twitter window
so finally the originator of microsoft back in windows this time on twitter
I am following him and the tweets given by him are awesome so no one want to miss it ………. one thought of him is that I am not so much intelligent but those who were intelligent are working for me………hats off
I am following him and the tweets of him are really nice ……..one thought of him is that i am not so much intelligent but those who were intelligent they are working for me ……….hats off
It was so nice..
twitter is very large to share some topics..
I think he has done the good thing.Twitter is good place to connect with more and more people around the world
He is the is the famed man from Microsoft,and I think Mr. Gates is on the right path to connect with the people around the world.
Bill Gates joins twitter – I think he on the right way to interact will people.
Bill Gates arrives on Twitter! It’s right time for him to join Twitter.Or Bill Gate is doing advertisement on Twitter??????????????
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……….. Its nice to hear that bill gates had joined twitter thnks for sharing
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