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Bill Gates is joined Twitter yesterday, 19 Jan 2010. 

All Microsoft fans, you can now follow Bill Gates in twitter @billgates.

He had also got the “Verified Account” stamp on his profile which confirmed that he is the man himself.

First tweet from Bill Gates is,

"Hello World." Hard at work on my foundation letter – publishing on 1/25.

Below is Bill Gates’ Twitter stats, at the time of posting this article.

143,425 followers,

listed in 4,396 lists and

following 40 tweeple.

Another interesting fact is that, Bill Gates fist followed @ashleytisdale even before following @microsoft

“Hello World” is the first program one usually writes when learning a new programming language.

The first Hello World program appeared in chapter 1.1 of the first edition of Kernighan & Ritchie’s original book about C, “The C Programming Language”, in 1978 and read like this:

main() {

    printf("hello, world");

}

Since then, Hello World has been implemented in just about every programming language on the planet.

Here are some links which has the Hello World programs in various programming languages as well as human languages.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/List_of_hello_world_programs
http://www.roesler-ac.de/wolfram/hello.htm