Sharda Ugra, writing in backpagelead.com.au, struggles to keep track of Sachin Tendulkar’s rapidly expanding following in Twitter.
And of course the Following. In the zone where privacy and public space overlap, Twitter is mostly the Facebook of the Famous. It is where the average fan, linked to his favourite, can stalk without being charged. He can read the ‘star’s’ thoughts, check his spelling, hear him speak, see his personal photos without managers or mikes, bodyguards or boundaries. When Tendulkar decided to come that close through Twitter, the tally of his ‘followers’ turned over as if a digital Greenwich had decided that time could only be measured in seconds. Tendulkar had signed on at midnight and at 11am the next morning, the number of people following was a mere 4000. But the news had just begun to spread and when he hit 24 hours, the number had risen to 68,000. Every time a screen is refreshed the numbers go up, 100 at a time
I admit to writing far too slowly, but those numbers are still impressively fast. And before I go, here’s my contribution to the Tendulkar record which should be broken next. His link is:http://twitter.com/sachin_rt
http://www.backpagelead.com.au/cricket/1168-tendulkar-on-twitter-the-start-of-a-stampede