Bill Gates joins Twitter, seen playing kissy face with Ashley Tisdale
By Thomas Ricker 
posted January 20th 2010 5:06AM
posted January 20th 2010 5:06AM
If you've been living in the Twitterverse then you've surely felt the aftershock of Bill Gates making his first official appearance on the social media ripsnorter just hours ago. As you'd expect, @BillGates is following a number of accounts related to the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation. He's even following a few tech-media dignitaries like Kara Swisher of All Things Digital and Steven Levy of Wired. But of the 40 accounts that Bill is following, we didn't expect to see Ashley Tisdale (fresh off her Microsoft Store performance) and uh, Ashton Kutcher on his rather exclusive list. Hey Bill ol' buddy, why not try @Engadget if you're looking for internet friends?
Really? You want bill gates on your ass?
If I knew gates was watching me the next time windows made me angry enough to blow up the planet I'd vent.. and that would be the end of it I imagine.
@Wwhat Bill must be following Obama. Yes he can
Now I have to admit that I'd feel more excited if gates followed my tweets than if obama did, probably, if I had a twitter account.
Talking of accounts, I was really impressed that twitter has a very clean and nice unsubscribe option, they won great respect from me with that, so many sites and forums have absolutely no way to back out, or it's a pain, but twitter makes it easy to delete your account, I was duly impressed.
Too late, he's already following TechCrunch! All hope is lost.
clearly mr. gates is planning on buying twitter.
@Wwhat
i dont care what anyone says, ashley tisdale would get it and she doesn't even know it. And i'm gonna give it to her
Aww, no Engadget love from Bill Gates?
DO YOU WONDER WHY??
:-P
They got balmer to come to the engadget show though.
@Almo can't forget this!
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/bill-gates-the-exit-interview/
and this: http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/
etc!
But you love me more, right honey?
"Hey Bill ol' buddy, why not try @Engadget if you're looking for internet friends?"
I heard that Bill ,ay become friends with the guys who accuse Engadget of being iPhone fanbois, but Engadget is probably out of the question. Just a rumor though....
"Twitterverse"? GTFO.
Is it real or fake?
I saw many fake Twitter accounts who pretend to famous person.
@ju1bxmmh It's a verified account.
@ju1bxmmh
According twtitter:
This does not mean we have verified who, exactly, is writing the tweets.
I had finally finded http://twitter.com/BILLGATES --> follow him :P
I, for one, thank the man, for being, the dude
... enough with the sarcasm, he's a billionaire and that makes him an american hero dammit.
@Wwhat I wasn't being sarcastic.
He also retweet Ryan Seacrest! Clearly he is new to this social network thing.
@mattmcnair and Ashton Kutcher as well
anyone who tweets is a fanny.
fanny? WHERE?!
@FAP FAP FAP
Dog gone it.. you got him all excited now... you know what'll happen next now, right?
Get those paper towels ready.
Big up to the @BillGates. His the man if you ask me.
He wants to get a bit more lively on the tweets thou.
@djad, how do you know the man is his?
You sound a bit jealous, Thomas.
Anyone notice Ina Fried's (formally Ian Fried) tweet on intersex conditions? That's ironic...
Good journalist though, I read her (his?) stuff often.
@ImSpartacus Yeah I did. Ina does some good work.
I wouldn't add someone if they consistently crapped all over me, either. Some people are into that, though.
Is it really Bill Gate or someone who signed up with an account named Bill Gates who said they are from Seattle?
He also lives in Medina, not Seattle so it makes me think it's not him.
@Brian
"Twitter is over capacity."
I believed it is him.
@Brian
And Bill Gates is not their true name.
who's ashley tisdale?
@mrqs
dunno.
@mrqs
An amazing actress with who has been apart of such great works as all three High School Musicals and the hit TV series The Sweet Live of Zack and Cody........
@natsfan7 Great answer to that question.
@natsfan7
OMG you answered that, honestly? WTF man. This is Engadget. Readers try to deliver on subtle sarcasm.
He's not following Engadget because he knows Engadget is full of mac whores.
Why does Bill Gates get all the (twitter) lovin' from the ladies? It must be his huge......bank account.
@natsfan7
An amazing actress with who has been apart of such great works as all three High School Musicals and the hit TV series The Sweet Live of Zack and Cody........
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And THAT makes her an amazing actress? Meryl Streep is an amazing actress, Gloria Swanson was an amazing actress. Ashely whatever is blonde hair on some adolescent TV show who got lucky.
@Dr Yusuf AlKindi
"Do I detect a note of sarcasm?"
" Are you kidding me? This baby is right off the charts!"
No thanks! Don't need Bill on my twitter.
Really? No one is going to comment on the "kids with intersex conditions"?
I figured at least one poster would have mentioned it....
a great man (bill gates)
www.partytow.com/e
Who the hell cares? This isn't news.
a) who cares about twitter?
b) who cares who's following bill gates on twitter?
c) who the hell is ashley tisdale?
d) who cares who the hell asley tisdale is?
e) why is such a lame article on engadget?