Rupert Murdoch Joins Twitter

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Mon, 01/02/2012 - 8:51am

A phone hacking scandal may have cost Rupert Murdoch his biggest-selling newspaper in 2011, but the billionaire media mogul managed to end the year with a modest addition to his empire -- an account on Twitter.

Senh: Rupert Murdoch has a Twitter account! I wonder if he has a MySpace account. I also wonder if this means anything else - i.e. that he's actually interested in the microblogging site.

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