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20 business tycoons on Twitter
Within 10 minutes of signing up on Twitter on Wednesday, 10,000 were following Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett and three hours later the numbers were climbing past 140,000.
His first tweet, under @WarrenBuffett, was "Warren is in the house".
He is not the only businessman on Twitter.
Let's first take a look at Indian tycoons using the microblogging service.
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20 business tycoons on Twitter
Vijay Mallya
Company: Chairman, UB Group
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 1,846,523
Active: Yes
Twitter status: Verified
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20 business tycoons on Twitter
Anand Mahindra
Company: Chairman and Managing Director, Mahindra & Mahindra
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 781,716
Active: Yes
Twitter status: Verified
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20 business tycoons on Twitter
Ratan Tata
Company: Former chairman, Tata Group
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 574,461
Active: Yes
Twitter status: Verified
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20 business tycoons on Twitter
Naveen Jindal
Company: Chairman, Jindal Steel & Power
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 65,219
Active: Yes
Twitter status: Verified
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20 business tycoons on Twitter
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
Company: Chairman and Managing Director, Biocon
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 48,748
Active: Yes
Twitter status: Verified
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20 business tycoons on Twitter
Anil Ambani
Company: Chairman, Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 18,945
Active: No
Twitter status: Unverified
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20 business tycoons on Twitter
Sunil Bharti Mittal
Company: Chairman and Group CEO, Bharti Enterprises
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 1,944
Active: No
Twitter status: Unverified
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20 business tycoons on Twitter
Uday Kotak
Company: Vice-Chairman and Managing Director, Kotak Mahindra Bank
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 707
Active: No
Twitter status: Unverified
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20 business tycoons on Twitter
Kalanithi Maran
Company: Chairman and Managing Director, Sun Group
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 145
Active: No
Twitter status: Unverified
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20 business tycoons on Twitter
Bill Gates
Company: Former CEO and current chairman, Microsoft
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 11,128,855
Active: Yes
Twitter status: Verified
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20 business tycoons on Twitter
Eric Schmidt
Company: Executive Chairman, Google
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 608,102
Active: Yes
Twitter status: Verified
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20 business tycoons on Twitter
Michael Bloomberg
Company: Founder, Bloomberg
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 482,901
Active: Yes
Twitter status: Verified
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20 business tycoons on Twitter
Warren Buffett
Company: Chairman and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 252,723
Active: Yes
Twitter status: Verified
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20 business tycoons on Twitter
Paul Allen
Company: Co-founder, Microsoft
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 76,299
Active: Yes
Twitter status: Verified
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20 business tycoons on Twitter
Michael Dell
Company: Founder and CEO, Dell Inc
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 65,064
Active: Yes
Twitter status: Verified
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20 business tycoons on Twitter
Larry Ellison
Company: Co-founder and CEO, Oracle Corporation
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 36,895
Active: No
Twitter status: Verified
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20 business tycoons on Twitter
Carlos Slim Helu
Company: Chairman & CEO, Telmex, America Movil, Samsung Mexico and Grupo Carso
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 231,150
Active: No
Twitter status: Verified
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20 business tycoons on Twitter
Sergey Brin
Company: Co-founder, Google
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 12,025
Active: No
Twitter status: Verified
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20 business tycoons on Twitter
Amancio Ortega
Company: Founding Chairman, Inditex, a Spanish fashion group that owns Zara
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 5,972
Active: No
Twitter status: Verified
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20 business tycoons on Twitter
Li Ka-shing
Company: Chairman, Hutchison Whampoa Limited and Cheung Kong Holdings
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 1,082
Active: No
Twitter status: Verified