Published>Wed, May 05 10 02:22 PM
He opened a Twitter account at 11: 55 pm on Tuesday night and in less than 45 minutes had crossed a thousand followers.
Tendulkar's tweets can be accessed at www.twitter. com/Sachin_ rt.
His Twitter account is expected to create as much buzz as when any of the world's great sportspersons joined the world's most popular microblogging site that now has close to 100 million users worldwide.
Twitter's popularity itself might soar in India, which is, at present, the world's ninth highest Twitter traffic country.
Of course, American and European sportspersons have already adopted Twitter.
Cycling champion Lance Armstrong, British tennis player Andy Murray, English footballer Steven Gerrard, top tennis player Serena Williams and American basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal are already on Twitter with hundreds of thousands of followers Tendulkar's first tweet was posted at 11: 55 pm IST. He said: ''Finally the original SRT is on twitter• the first thing I'd like to do is wish my colleagues the best in the Windies.'' The world's highest run getter in both Test as well as One-Day Internationals was apparently partying with photographer Atul Kasbekar and filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra at an undisclosed location last night when he opened his account.
For his second tweet, Tendulkar posted a photograph of the three of them together and tweeted: ''Hanging with Vinod Chopra and @ atulkasbekar... 3 more idiots???'' He was referring to Chopra's blockbuster Three Idiots starring Aamir Khan. Then, in a jocular manner, he said: '' Vinod Chopra has a script called 'Ferrari Ki Sawaari'... Just heard it, sounds awesome.'' Tendulkar joins Virender Sehwag, who already has an account Twitter. In fact, Sehwag announced the birth of his second son on Tuesday on Twitter.
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