Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, has launched a Twitter account, new Facebook
page and personal website called "The Gates Notes". In just two days, Gates has more than 250,000 Twitter followers and 60,000 Facebook fans!!! And by the
way l am one of them.
As mentioned by theage.com.au he returns to Facebook after quitting the site
last year, saying he was getting too many friend requests and had trouble
determining who were his friends and who were strangers. "It was just way too much trouble so I gave it up," he told a
business forum in India.
On his new website, The Gates Notes, the welcome page says as follows, "Since leaving my fulltime job
at Microsoft to dedicate more time to our foundation, a lot of people have
asked me what I'm working on. It often feels like I'm back in school, as I
spend a lot of my time learning about issues I'm passionate about.
I'm fortunate because the people I'm working with and learning from are true
experts in their fields. I take a lot of notes, and often share them and my own
thoughts on the subject with others through email, so I can learn from them and
expand the conversation.
I thought it would be interesting to share these conversations more widely
with a website, in the hope of getting more people thinking and learning about
the issues I think are interesting and important. So, welcome to the Gates
Notes."
(Sources: theage.com.au, gatesnotes.com, facebook.com)