I know that when Oprah announced that she was creating a Twitter account, almost everyone that I knew immediately followed her.  She gained almost half a million followers in less than a month even though she hasn’t really done anything.
According to Chicago Now, Oprah “had 1,336,827 followers when she sent her last tweet on June 6. Today she has 1,801,684 (and counting).”  That’s really incredible.  If you’ve ever tried to build a following on Twitter, you will know that it’s not always that easy.
It’s unfortunate, therefore, that she really doesn’t interact on the site.  Her last tweet was …read more

Oprah Winfrey has joined the Twittersphere (http://twitter.com/oprah) and posted her very first Twitter message this morning on her daytime talk show.  What was said in this groundbreaking event?
"HI TWITTERS . THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY," she wrote.  That’s it.  Very basic. 
Amazingly, the last time I checked she was close to having 130,000 followers already and she got a message from fellow talk show host, Jimmy Fallon, who said he was at a deli for a photo shoot.  She tweeted back: "Hi Jimmy.  Order a reuben for me."
She even provided a quick update on …read more