by wildcherry on Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 | Entertainment, News

Microsoft’s founder and the world’s richest man, Bill Gates, has just jointed Twitter. You can start following him at @BillGates. The account is indeed real: it is officially a verified account and is confirmed by Twitter’s Caroline Mizumoto.

Bill’s follower count escalated after Caroline’s tweet, meaning his real rate of growth is about 20,000 new followers per hour. The last time we’ve seen a new Twitter user with this kind of momentum was Oprah when she first joined.

Well even though we are not Bill Gates, please feel free to add blogoncherry on Tweeter!

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