Microsoft founder joins Twitter

If you want to follow or to know what Bill Gates’ up to you might want to open a Twitter account and follow him there.  The world’s richest man who is also a philanthropist had just joined twitter a couple of days ago and had already got almost 300,000 followers! The said twitter account was verified by Twitter’s Caroline Mizumotto.  His first tweet was “"Hello World." Hard at work on my foundation letter - publishing on 1/25.”  You can follow him here.

Apparently Bill Gates had a Facebook account before but he eventually gave up on the service after being flooded with numerous friend requests.

Update: As I am writing this, he already have 297,102 followers and growing every minute, he also follows 42 Twitter accounts and and already have 12 Tweets.