Bill Gates joining Twitter (@BillGates) yesterday was the ‘BIG’ geek-tech news yesterday.  Already in less than 24 hours the Microsoft co-founder has over 190,000 followers.

I found it funny that Mr. Nerd is following 40 people and one of them is High School Musical star Ashley Tisdale.

So in between Bill following Microsoft, Carnegie Foundation, World Food Prize, President Obama, TED and the New York Times was Miss Tisdale.

Another interesting note from Mr. Gates first day on Twitter was that he Tweeted five Tweets and one was a big thanks to Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk), who is an unabashed Apple lover.  Come on Bill, a little PC love would have been nice.

Bill was also generous in thanking Ryan Seacrest (@ryanseacrest) for his work on Larry King Live raising donations for Haiti.