Rupert Murdoch joins twitter and loves George Clooney!

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Rupurt Murdoch Joins Twitter

January 2, 2012 by David John Walker

80 year old media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has finally joined Twitter, as of January 1, 2012, with these first few tweets on New Year’s day: “Have just read The Rational Optimist Great book,” then “Steve Jobs biog interesting but unfair. Family must hate”, then several tweets later, finishing out the day with praise for actor George Clooney: “Saw Fox film Descendants. Thank God, one to be proud of. Star Geo Clooney deserves Oscar, maybe film too.” Murdoch’s News Corporation purchased Twentieth Century Fox, one of the big six American movie studios, in 1985.

Some were surprised to see Murdoch hop onto the Twitter bandwagon because he has been the target of so many scathing and critical tweets in the past and there was a hacking campaign on Twitter to have his News of the World shut down. Murdoch’s interests are varied as demonstrated by the 17 tweets he has made, just two days into 2012, and he already boasts more than 42,000 followers.

The Octogenarian on this the second day of the new year told his followers of his admiration for Scotland’s first prime minister, Alex Salmon, and congratulated Mike Bloomberg for “getting some rewards for being New York’s best mayor in memory!”