Microsoft’s founder and the world’s richest man, Bill Gates, has just jointed Twitter. You can start following him at @BillGates.The account is indeed real: it is officially a verified account and is confirmed by Twitter’s Caroline Mizumoto. So far, he’s only tweeted twice and retweeted two tweets, but he’s already rapidly growing in followers (it only took a few minutes for him to jump from 400 to 4000 followers.

His firts post was “Hello World. Hard at work on my foundation letter – publishing on 1/25.”

Four hours later now he’s got over 30,000 followers and rising every second!