Bill McDermott posts first tweet

Tom Paine

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Bill McDermott, SAP's co-CEO (until next year when he is expected to become sole CEO), who
is based in Newtown Square, joined Twitter and posted his first tweet yesterday evening:

I'm on Twitter - better late than never. Now I can see why @jbecher is so popular! Shout-out to my #SAP colleagues worldwide!!

— Bill McDermott (@BillRMcDermott) August 26, 2013

McDermott joins Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Twitter, who posted one typically combative anti-SAP tweet in June and hasn't reappeared since:

Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020

— Larry Ellison (@larryellison) June 6, 2012

Ellison attracted over 40,000 followers off that one tweet.

McDermott's first tweet was certainly less controversial than Ellison's and not as well
pre-publicized. His follower count is now at 394 and growing rapidly.

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