{"id":8705,"date":"2010-07-06T14:06:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T14:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/lebron_james_now_on_twitter.html"},"modified":"2010-07-06T14:06:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T14:06:35","slug":"lebron-james-now-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/lebron-james-now-on-twitter.html","title":{"rendered":"Lebron James now on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#160;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" alt=\"lebron-james.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/lebron-james.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend I <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rtehrani\/status\/17669605217\">tweeted<\/a> the fact that Lady Gaga has surpassed President Obama in Twitter followers and separately the matter was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/news\/2010\/07\/01\/4881566.htm\">reported on<\/a> by TMC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/tmcnet\/columnists\/columnist.aspx?id=100384\">Juliana Kenny<\/a>. But look out Presidents and Ladies alike, there is a new King in town and his name is Lebron &#8211; Lebron James &#8211; King Lebron James and he has <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/07\/06\/lebron-james-twitter\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">just joined<\/a> Twitter at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kingjames\">@kingjames<\/a>. At the current 30,000 followers the world-famous basketball player is a far cry from the 4.8 million followers of <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ladygaga\">Lady Gaga<\/a> or the 4.5 million of President Obama &#8211; still, James is a major sports celeb and we can expect his web cred to increase rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>This is particularly the case in light of the fact that the athlete has a Web site which will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lebronjames.com\/\">launch<\/a> soon. The photo below shows what the site looks like now.<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/lebron-james-site.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"398\" alt=\"lebron-james-site.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2010\/07\/lebron-james-site-thumb-500x398-7636.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/a><\/span>&#160;<\/div>\n<p>It is clear the web is becoming more important than ever in helping to shape the image of celebrities, athletes and politicians and the question is will Lebron be as fierce a competitor in the game of Twitter followers as he is on the courts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; Over the weekend I tweeted the fact that Lady Gaga has surpassed President Obama in Twitter followers and separately the matter was reported on by TMC&#8217;s Juliana Kenny. But look out Presidents and Ladies alike, there is a new King in town and his name is Lebron &#8211; Lebron James &#8211; King Lebron James<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,1682,118,217],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}