God Tweets

When I saw an e-mail titled "Do you follow God ?" from Baldy on my corporate mohhalla mailbox, I imagined no more to it than a mere typical forward. I didn't bother reading it then, and only when I saw the string of quick replies to it from my fellow corporate mohhallites, I decided to open the mail. It was a very short, crisp mail from an apparently highly excited Baldz who was announcing on Corporate Mohhalla the entry of Sachin Tendulkar on Twitter.
It was big for me, and perhaps millions more, and it was definitely big for the Indian media as well. NDTV, Times of India, Yahoo and many more chose to broadcast it as a "flash news". This is the very reason why Twitter has been getting so famous.
Despite there being numerous social networking sites around before Twitter, none of them had managed to capture the attention of celebrities yet. Twitter did just that, probably because celebs need not go about 'accepting requests' from their countless fans. Simple site without many hassles. But Twitter probably got its biggest 'boom' till date in India on 05 May'10, something which even the Twitter bosses back in US would have realized.

A few musings:
1. It has almost been 96 hours since Sachin joined Twitter, and sachin_rt has 2,49,505...no... 2,49, 508...gosh...2,49,521.. forget it... almost 2.5 lakh followers.

2. The rate at which Sachin's followers increase might be the only thing which matches his rate of scoring centuries.

3. Shah Rukh Khan apparently is the Indian with maximum 'twitollowers' (yes, I coined the term). Knowing Sachin's penchant for breaking and making records, SRK's might soon bite the dust.

4. Ashton Kutcher's is apparently the most followed profile worldwide, with 48L + followers (dunno why). God might find tough breaking this, considering the limited popularity of cricket globally.

5. The A.R Rahman community on orkut beats the SRT community by over a lakh
(big surprise !!!).

6. Atul Kasbekar is a childhood friend so understood, but how come Zaheer Khan and Narain Karthikeyan. Not the first ones I would have expected you to follow.

7. People I expect you to be following pretty soon: Harsha Bhogle, SRK, Shane Warne, MSD. Something tells me that Saurav Ganguly would take some time making to the list.

8. Please don't entertain Vidhu Vinod Chopra much. He might end up using your Ferrari for his movie and not offering you credit for it. Chetan Bhagat might offer you some advice here... (Hehehehe !!!)

9. There is a profile in the name of sachin__rt (note the extra _) and has almost 3700 mistaken followers. This chap seems to be a big SRK fan, looking at his tweets directed at him.

10. There have been numerous tweets celebrating God's arrival on Twitter. But this was probably the best of the lot: "Government of India decides to conduct a Census, requests Sachin to join Twitter to make the process easier and faster."

11. Absolutely love the way you have started replying to your fans. Speaks a lot, please choose to send me a reply some day.