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	Google Joins Twitter, Attracts 40K Followers

Elizabeth Woyke

3-3-2009 2:25 PM

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Elizabeth Woyke says:

Less than a week after Google signed up for a Twitter account, the company has attracted more than 40,000 followers. As CNET helpfully notes, that places Google somewhere between President Obama and Microsoft and Yahoo! on the popularity scale. The feed basically functions like a streamlined Google blog, covering new product announcements. But its first tweet, which spelled out "I'm feeling lucky" in binary, was undeniably unique.

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<A href="http://twitter.com/google">Google's Twitter account</A> attracted 27,176 followers in the less than two full days since its launch Wednesday. That's nearly one every 5 seconds.
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Google hasn't attained the Twitter follower popularity of <A href="http://twitter.com/BarackObama">Barack Obama</A>, with 333,381 as of Friday morning, but it is a remarkably fast ascent. <A href="http://twitter.com/live_search">Microsoft's Live Search Twitter account</A> has 1,536 followers, and <A href="http://twitter.com/yahoo">Yahoo's Twitter account</A> has 4,876. <A href="http://ycorpblog.com/2009/02/09/hello-twitter-world/">Yahoo climbed aboard the Twitter bandwagon</A> two and a half weeks ago.
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