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Facebook Founder Marc Zuckerberg Admits He Uses Twitter

by Terrence O'Brien on March 9, 2009 at 06:41 PM

Facebook Founder Marc Zuckerberg Admits He Uses Twitter

And the Twitter news just doesn't stop!

We're wondering when you, our dear readers, are going to stage a mutiny and take over Switched, since you're undoubtedly sick of reading about our favorite way of indulging our every narcissistic impulse. But, until you show up at the door with pitchforks and torches, we're gonna keep talking about it.

This mildly interesting tidbit has to do with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. The social media entrepreneur has a private Twitter page under the name of 'Zuck,' but recently there has been speculation that he's been operating a second -- public -- profile under the name 'finkd.' Guess what? Turns out he is. Mr. Zuckerberg revealed himself via an update to the account and via a mirrored update on his Facebook page.
Twitter, Facebook, or MySpace?
Twitter826 (4.2%)
Facebook14794 (75.4%)
MySpace2410 (12.3%)
I use all three.1151 (5.9%)
I'm not sure.439 (2.2%)

Why two separate Twitter profiles? It's baffling considering that Twitter is starting to over many Facebook users and turning into a serious competitor for Zuckerberg's social-networking baby. Maybe he's doing research on the fast-growing rival. Maybe 'Zuck' is primarily an outlet for dark sexual fantasies that would shame the company founder. Or maybe he just finally figured out that Twitter is all about letting millions of strangers read about the private, mundane details of your life in 140-character chunks. [From: ValleyWag]

Top Techies on Twitter

    Richard Branson
    Richard Branson is the nutty Chairman of the Virgin Group, which has its hands in Cell Phones, Space Travel, Airlines... pretty much everything you can think of. You can follow his daily musings and adventures at http://twitter.com/RichardBranson. Sample Tweet: Just dropped in Bond-style at the V Australia launch party on Cockatoo Island. Was great to see Nat and 1000 others there. Big day tomorrow!

    John C. Dvorak
    John Dvorak is one of the biggest names in tech journalism. He's been writing for publications like PC World since the 1980s and become known around the Switched offices by the nickname Cranky-Pants. You can follow him at http://twitter.com/THErealDVORAK, where he begs people to listen to his various podcasts. Sample Tweet: if anyone wants to take a shot at doing the artwork for the iTunes posting of Dvorak-Horowitz unplugged, we'd be grateful. Ours sucks.

    Kevin Rose
    The founder of link sharing service Digg shares pretty much everything he does at http://twitter.com/kevinrose, rubbing our noses in the fact that, as a successful entrepreneur, he has a lot more down time than the rest of us. Sample Tweet: Decided not to workout, had a beer, now @glennmc is playing "how deep is your love" by the bee gees in his car #oddfriday

    Michael Arrington
    The tech-blogger-extraordinaire (and TechCrunch founder) shares links to news and fun stuff he finds on the Internet at http://twitter.com/TechCrunch. Sample Tweet: [Reading] "The real reason newspapers and radio stations are hurting -- and how they can thrive" http://bit.ly/w8tOO

    Tony Hsieh
    The CEO of online retail outlet Zappos.com is an avid user of Twitter and gives you a glimpse into the life of one of the busiest CEOs on the planet at http://twitter.com/zappos. Sample Tweet: Overslept, almost missed flight. Good thing TSA only checks for liquids, not whether passengers showered. Also I confirmed I'm tattoo-free.

    Robert Scoble
    Fast Company Managing Editor is a voracious devourer of all kinds of media. If you don't have time to actually check all the various Web sites out there for new tech news, then following Scoble's Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/Scobleizer can be a good filter for finding out what's new. Sample Tweet: Since USA is socialist now, according to conservative talk radio, I'm wondering when we'll get a good transit system... http://ff.im/1pFot

    Biz Stone & Jack Dorsey
    You can follow Twitter's founders at http://tinyurl.com/dcbszg & http://twitter.com/jack for insights into the development of the microblogging service as well as what they're doing when they're not working. Sample Tweet: Newton's Principia may be the most important scientific work ever written-nothing wrong with the History channel on a Saturday night

    David Allen
    Self-help guru created a system called Getting Things Done that urges people to simplify, organize, and act on everything in their lives. You can follow him at http://twitter.com/gtdguy and see how he puts his own advice to work. Sample Tweet: Showing Ian our office in Ojai, demo-ing cool stuff like my 2-min timer & other GTDgeekish things.. http://tinyurl.com/dcbszg

    Tim O'Reilly
    Tim O'Reilly is the founder of O'Reilly Media, which publishes how-to manuals on software, programming, and 'Make' magazine. You can follow his political and business commentary (sorry he's not Tweeting instructions for building Flash games), at http://twitter.com/timoreilly. Sample Tweet: Tom Friedman seems to be channeling @genmon, who noted a few months ago that 2008 would be the year of "Peak Waste" http://bit.ly/USAcp

    Padmasree Warrior
    The Chief Technology Officer at the networking powerhouse CISCO shares links, thoughts, and occasional advice at http://twitter.com/Padmasree. Sample Tweet: Is it time to rename "Information technology" to "Information fabric"? Less about technology, more about access, relevance.. Discuss


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