Footballer Wayne Rooney Joins Twitter (Gets 100K Followers In One Day, Doesn’t Tweet In Grunts)

When I started writing this piece my initial angle was that somebody pretending to be football and Manchester United megastar Wayne Rooney had signed up to Twitter – I mean, the account has no avatar and it all reads a little spoofy – but further investigation has revealed that it is actually him. And he’s clocked up over 100,000 followers in less than 24 hours.

The frightening part? He can string a sentence together. Kind of.

I mean, take a look for yourself:

Okay, so it isn’t Henry James, but there are only a couple of spelling and grammatical errors in that one tweet.

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