Son Heung-min creates Twitter account… 155,000 followers in 5 hours

▲ This photo, captured from Son Heung-min's Twitter, shows the account created by the star player. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)

SEOUL, May 4 (Yonhap) -- Son Heung-min (30·Tottenham) is receiving great attention from fans for creating his official Twitter account.

Son uploaded his first tweet, “Hi everyone this is real me, excited to open my Twitter!” on the morning of May 4th (KST).

The star player added, ”I hope to share the more exciting and happy news with my fans from here. Please look forward to it.”

Only after 5 hours since Son posted his first tweet, the player surpassed 155,000 followers and received more than 179,000 likes and 5,400 comments.

Twitter Sports and Twitter Korea also shared the news about Son’s new Twitter account.

Son also left a voice message through Twitter Sports, “I'm so excited to be joining Twitter so I can talk to you all about football, some of my hobbies, and everything in general,” adding, “Give me a follow.”

(This article is translated from Korean to English by An Hayeon.)

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