Four-time Masters champion and one-time husband Tiger Woods joined Twitter today. The rest of the site's users seemed to agree things were either going to get very graphic or very boring.
Woods confirmed his presence with the trademark wit and sparkling wordplay fans have come to expect
Yep, it’s me. I think I like this twitter thing. You guys are awesome. Thanks for all the love.
Tiger Woods
TigerWoods
ABC's Jake Tapper couldn't envision a scenario wherein Tiger would come to regret today's decision.
What could go wrong? RT @TigerWoods: What’s up everyone. Finally decided to try out twitter!
Jake Tapper
jaketapper
ESPN's Jason Sobel delivered some unsolicited advice to Woods and/or his unpaid intern
Advice for @TigerWoods: Be yourself on here. Unless, of course, you have a ghost tweeter. Then be someone else. Preferably Tiger Woods.
Jason Sobel
JasonSobel
Sports Illustrated's Grant Wahl disappointed everyone hoping for a Smutty Tiger cameo
Chances that Twitter of @TigerWoods will be written in same boilerplate-by-PR-aide as that of @Cristiano Ronaldo? High.
Grant Wahl
GrantWahl
CNBC sports business reporter Darren Rovell confirmed that Woods is in fact tweeting without a net. (Or a Nike PR team.)
Spoke to Mark Steinberg, agent of @TigerWoods, said Tiger has taken it upon himself to use Twitter to stay connected w/fans
darren rovell
darrenrovell
Business Insider's Dashiell Bennett and @thecajunboy imagined myriad ways things could go wrong
P.S. What are you wearing? RT @mbyhoff: Hmmmm. RT @TigerWoods: What’s up everyone. Finally decided to try out twitter!
Dashiell Bennett
dashb0t
Tiger Woods is now tweeting (@TigerWoods). I wonder if he knows that this isn't the social media service that allows you "poke" other users.
Brett
thecajunboy
Luke Mazur marveled at the golfer's stellar sense of timing
tiger woods joins twitter on national un-friend day. clever bit of PR.
Luke Mazur
lumazur
Novelist Touré thought everyone could have been a bit more hospitable. The man just got divorced, you know.
You guys are giving @TigerWoods a cold welcome to Twitter. Don't scare him off. And don't eryone make the same lame joke. Whoops. Too late.
Touré
ToureX
National Post sports columnist Bruce Arthur congratulated Woods on meeting expectations
So far, @TigerWoods is approximately as interesting as I'd always imagined him to be.
Bruce Arthur
bruce_arthur
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