It's well known that Facebook has had its eye on Twitter, even attempting an acquisition at one point. But Mark Zuckerberg, the time-strapped CEO of Facebook, has never actively used the service publicly - his private twitter account rarely sees any action. At least, that was the thinking before this weekend. Zuckerberg now has a public account.
The account, finkd, has only 14 updates, but they have been spread out over the last month. Could Zuckerberg really have been using Twitter publicly for so long without anybody noticing? And is it really him?, we asked.
Indeed it is: Facebook's Director of Corporate Communications, Brandee Barker, claimed via a Tweet that the account was the real Zuckerberg, a fact that we later confirmed with Barker via direct message.
Who does Zuckerberg consider interesting enough to follow? Facebook's Dave Morin, for starters, and Mozilla Firefox co-founder Blake Ross, whose company Parakey was acquired by Facebook in 2007. Given his key role in the development of the micro-messaging phenomenon, it's not surprising that @finkd has over 2300 followers as of this post, up from double digits only days ago.
Will you be following @finkd?