Billionaire Warren Buffet joins twitter, hits 140,000 followers in 3 hours

Billionaire and the world's foremost investor, Warren Buffet made his twitter debut yesterday and in 3 hours he had 142,000 followers. He was gaining 1 thousand followers per minute!... crazzzy!

The 82-year-old 'Oracle of Omaha' announced his debut on the site by simply tweeting: "Warren is in the house."

His second tweet from the @WarrenBuffett account was a link to an article on "why women are key to America's prosperity".

So far, Mr Buffett has not followed any other Twitter users.