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Steve Ballmer Reveals His Secret Twitter Account

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-wanna-watch-the-steves-wrestle dept.

alphadogg writes "'Quietly' is not a word that would usually describe any action performed by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. But quietly is exactly how Ballmer has conducted himself on Twitter, a site he joined over a year ago unbeknownst to most of the technology world. Just a few days ago, Ballmer was speaking in Kiev, Ukraine, and according to a transcript on the Microsoft website, Ballmer responded to an audience member who asked 'when are you going to start tweeting?' Ballmer said: 'I have a Twitter account. I'm just very private about who I really am on Twitter.'"

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  1. Re:Wow. by mark72005 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Now he's throwing chars instead of chairs

  2. Re:Inquiring minds want to know... by blair1q · · Score: 1, Redundant

    That joke makes me want to mispronounce that word.

  3. Re:Inquiring minds want to know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm so tired of people thinking that all Microsoft does is Windows and Office. Step into the enterprise realm and you will see the big money....we've spent over 300k with Microsoft and only a portion of that is desktop software. Server OS (75%+ market share), SQL, Exchange, Azure, CRM, Unified Messaging, Virtualization,

    Xbox is a profitable division now, true in the past it wasn't, but the 360 and 24 million LIVE subscriptions changed that

    http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2010/06/25/microsoft-by-the-numbers.aspx

    Just because the lumbering giant is late to a couple consumer parties, doesn't mean it cant come in and quietly steal the show or at least buyout the talent.