20 business tycoons on Twitter

 

Within 10 minutes of signing up on Twitter on Wednesday, 10,000 were following Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett and three hours later the numbers were climbing past 140,000.
His first tweet, under @WarrenBuffett, was "Warren is in the house".
He is not the only businessman on Twitter.
Let's first take a look at Indian tycoons using the microblogging service.

Vijay Mallya
Company: Chairman, UB Group
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 1,846,523
Active: Yes
Twitter status: Verified

Anand Mahindra
Company: Chairman and Managing Director, Mahindra & Mahindra
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 781,716
Active: Yes
Twitter status: Verified

Ratan Tata
Company: Former chairman, Tata Group
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 574,461
Active: Yes
Twitter status: Verified

Naveen Jindal
Company: Chairman, Jindal Steel & Power
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 65,219
Active: Yes
Twitter status: Verified

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
Company: Chairman and Managing Director, Biocon
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 48,748
Active: Yes
Twitter status: Verified

Anil Ambani
Company: Chairman, Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 18,945
Active: No
Twitter status: Unverified

Sunil Bharti Mittal
Company: Chairman and Group CEO, Bharti Enterprises
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 1,944
Active: No
Twitter status: Unverified

Uday Kotak
Company: Vice-Chairman and Managing Director, Kotak Mahindra Bank
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 707
Active: No
Twitter status: Unverified

Kalanithi Maran
Company: Chairman and Managing Director, Sun Group
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 145
Active: No
Twitter status: Unverified

Bill Gates
Company: Former CEO and current chairman, Microsoft
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 11,128,855
Active: Yes
Twitter status: Verified

Eric Schmidt
Company: Executive Chairman, Google
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 608,102
Active: Yes
Twitter status: Verified

Michael Bloomberg
Company: Founder, Bloomberg
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 482,901
Active: Yes
Twitter status: Verified

Warren Buffett
Company: Chairman and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 252,723
Active: Yes
Twitter status: Verified

Paul Allen
Company: Co-founder, Microsoft
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 76,299
Active: Yes
Twitter status: Verified

Michael Dell
Company: Founder and CEO, Dell Inc
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 65,064
Active: Yes
Twitter status: Verified

Larry Ellison
Company: Co-founder and CEO, Oracle Corporation
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 36,895
Active: No
Twitter status: Verified

Carlos Slim Helu
Company: Chairman & CEO, Telmex, America Movil, Samsung Mexico and Grupo Carso
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 231,150
Active: No
Twitter status: Verified

Sergey Brin
Company: Co-founder, Google
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 12,025
Active: No
Twitter status: Verified

Amancio Ortega
Company: Founding Chairman, Inditex, a Spanish fashion group that owns Zara
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 5,972
Active: No
Twitter status: Verified

Li Ka-shing
Company: Chairman, Hutchison Whampoa Limited and Cheung Kong Holdings
Twitter followers (as of May, 2013): 1,082
Active: No
Twitter status: Verified