KO tweet alert -- 8 pm -- @davidshuster

[nashville_brook]

says Shuster:

If you aren't already following @keitholbermann, now would be a good time to start. His next tweet will come at 8pm eastern.

[Little Star]

1. Somebody please post what he tweets for us non-tweeters. Thanks.

[nashville_brook]

3. will do -- :)

[Cleita]

13. Thanks. That should be in the next 15 minutes or so.

:bounce:

[Georgia farmer]

5. Why not?

Why aren't you on Twitter. No problem, just curious. Lot's of info there.

[Little Star]

26. because I'm an old fuddy duddy. LOL ....

But it's true. I only use my cell phone to make emergency calls when the electricity goes out or if I have car trouble. Everyone knows not to call my cell because it's always off unless I need to make an out going call. :shrug:

[inna]

25. +1000000

[EFerrari]

29. First bit:

KeithOlbermann Keith Olbermann
Citizens Of The Free World: Greetings! ........ (more to come) #FOK

[inna]

31. thank you thank you!!! I'm signing back on!!

[EFerrari]

32. Second bit:

KeithOlbermann Keith Olbermann
My humble thanks to all Friends of Keith for the many kind words. The reports of the death of my career are greatly exaggerated #FOK

[trueblue2007]

30. GOSH !!!! take a look at his picture. LOL

He must have been in his 20's when that picture was taken ???

[EFerrari]

2. The owl sings in French, repeat, the owl sings in French.

[Lucinda]

4. LOL

I think I love you. Thankie for the laugh!

[EFerrari]

9. Hi there, lady.

:hi:

[nashville_brook]

7. qui?

:evilgrin:

[Tx4obama]

6. Keith's first tweet since he left MSNBC - below

http://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann
At exactly 8 Eastern tonight I will issue my first tweet. Well, other than THIS one :) about 6 hours ago via web

[nashville_brook]

8. ah...thanks!

[rainbow4321]

10. LOL..KO's # of tweet followers just jumped up from 187,000 or so

to 193,461! And all I did was hit the refresh button!

[EFerrari]

11. LOL!

And I'm one of those. :rofl:

[TuxedoKat]

21. Ha! Me too.

Hadn't been on Twitter in over a year.

[EFerrari]

24. The tweets group at sundown, repeat.

lol

[Pryderi]

12. Is he moving to Oprah network?

[grasswire]

14. he's flexing his muscles, I think

And you can bet that NBC is paying VERY close attention to the number of followers that sign on to his name today.

[EFerrari]

15. His draw is huge. They're screwed

and I'm loving that part. :)

[grasswire]

16. it will be very interesting to see the MSNBC numbers tomorrow.

Veddy interesting.

[EFerrari]

17. Where can we see them, do you know?

I want to print them out and frame them.

lol

[grasswire]

18. someone on DU promised to post them n/t

[grasswire]

19. this is like waiting for the Ovaltine secret code

KO is a fan of Jean Shepherd. I'm sure he's grinning at this fun.

[pacalo]

20. You & EFerrari are making me laugh -- this is fun!

:rofl:

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. I came home for this

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. Here and LO doing a hell of a tribute

KeithOlbermann Keith Olbermann
Citizens Of The Free World: Greetings! ........ (more to come) #FOK
24 seconds ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[nashville_brook]

27. thanks! cooking dinner and away from 'puter.

[dmr]

34. What does FOK mean?

:shrug:
Thanks
:hi:

[renate]

38. I assume it means Friends of Keith n/t

[dmr]

40. Thanks. That makes sense.

:hi:

[Gamow]

28. Turns out, it was just a FOKing "hello world" tweet. Kinda lame. nt

[nashville_brook]

33. yep -- here's the second one...

My humble thanks to all Friends of Keith for the many kind words. The reports of the death of my career are greatly exaggerated #FOK

[dmr]

35. I sign up for Twitter. Not sure what I'm doing, but I'm game, I think.

:hi:

[AsahinaKimi]

36. I enjoy Twitter..

especially when I have a Japanese celebrity follow me.. Yikes, shockingly cool for me!

[Tx4obama]

37. Give it a day or two to explore it. You'll love it. n/t

[kerry-is-my-prez]

39. Tried to sign up and it said "Twitter is over capacity'

This is at 3:30 EST.

Wonder if Keith fans crashed twitter.