Tendulkar begins Twitter innings

(vIndianz May 7, 2010): India’s most popular batsman Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar finally joined Twitter on Tuesday. With the account name @sachin_rt, Sachin managed to score over 75,000 followers within a matter of hours on the micro-blogging site.

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The “master blaster” posted his first tweet wishing the Indian team good luck for the T20 World Cup. He also posted his personal pictures taken with friends including those with film director Vidhu Vinod Chopra and ace photographer Atul Kasbekar in order to authenticate his profile. The batsman also posted other pictures such as one of him standing on a beach holding two crabs and a sleepy picture of himself.

Further tweets included one that congratulated teammate Virender Sehwag on the birth of his second child and another that revealed the status of the finger injury that he sustained during the IPL semifinal.

The response to each of his tweets was very high. Various other celebrities already on Twitter such as Shilpa Shetty and Sania Mirza welcomed him to the micro-blogging domain. Many of Sachin’s fans on Twitter immediately began following his tweets with the number of followers put at 75,000 within 24 hours and still increasing. Most of them wished him a speedy recovery from his injury and commented on his pictures.

Twitter has recently witnessed the addition of many high profile Indian celebrities including Shah Rukh Khan and Priyanka Chopra. Sachin Tendulkar is the latest among a list of global sportspersons to join Twitter including basketball star Shaquille O’Neal and cyclist Lance Armstrong.

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Tendulkar begins Twitter innings

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