20 business tycoons on Twitter
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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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Image: Warren Buffett is the latest businessman to join Twitter.
Photographs: B Mathur/Reuters
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Vijay Mallya
Company: Chairman, UB Group
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 1,846,523
Active: Yes
Twitter status: Verified
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Image: Vijay Mallya.
Photographs: Ahmad Masood/Reuters
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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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Image: Anand Mahindra.
Photographs: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters
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Ratan Tata
Company: Former chairman, Tata Group
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 574,461
Active: Yes
Twitter status: Verified
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Image: Ratan Tata.
Photographs: Amit Dave/Reuters
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Naveen Jindal
Company: Chairman, Jindal Steel & Power
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 65,219
Active: Yes
Twitter status: Verified
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Image: Naveen Jindal with Bolivia's President Evo Morales in La Paz, Bolivia.
Photographs: Jose Luis Quintana/Reuters
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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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Image: Kiran Mazumdar Shaw.
Photographs: Bazuki Muhammad/Reuters
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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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Image: Anil Ambani.
Photographs: Bazuki Muhammad/Reuters
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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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Image: Sunil Bharti Mittal.
Photographs: Philippe Wojazer/Reuters
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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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Image: Uday Kotak with former US Treasury Secretary John Snow in Mumbai.
Photographs: Adeel Halim/Reuters
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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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Image: Kalanithi Maran.
Photographs: Source: sun.in
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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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Image: Bill Gates.
Photographs: Gus Ruelas/Reuters
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Eric Schmidt
Company: Executive Chairman, Google
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 608,102
Active: Yes
Twitter status: Verified
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Image: Eric Schmidt.
Photographs: Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters
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Michael Bloomberg
Company: Founder, Bloomberg
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 482,901
Active: Yes
Twitter status: Verified
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Image: Michael Bloomberg.
Photographs: Richard Drew/Pool/Reuters
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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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Image: Warren Buffett.
Photographs: Jim Urquhart/Reuters
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Paul Allen
Company: Co-founder, Microsoft
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 76,299
Active: Yes
Twitter status: Verified
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Image: Paul Allen.
Photographs: Robert Sorbo/Reuters
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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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Image: Michael Dell.
Photographs: Lucas Jackson/Reuters
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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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Image: Larry Ellison.
Photographs: Stephen Lam/Reuters
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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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Image: Carlos Slim Helu.
Photographs: Valentin Flauraud/Reuters
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Sergey Brin
Company: Co-founder, Google
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 12,025
Active: No
Twitter status: Verified
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Image: Sergey Brin.
Photographs: Robert Galbraith/Reuters
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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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Image: Amancio Ortega with Spain's Princess Letizia in Coruna, northern Spain.
Photographs: Miguel Vidal/Reuters
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