25 April,2011 12:10 PM IST | | ANI
England and Manchester United striker has joined the blogging site Twitter, but started off by making a series of mistakes.
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The Man Utd ace attracted 150,000 followers within hours of his first Tweet to team mate Rio Ferdinand, The Sun reports.
He wrote: "Hi Rio do you want picking up in the morning pal."
Unfortunately, it flopped as novice Roo forgot to use Rio's username, rioferdy5.
Later Wayne, 26, successfully tweeted - but with a spelling mistake: "Hi all this is Wayne Rooney just started so bare with me. Hope all is well. I'll get rio to approve it's me guys. Xoxo".
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Rio, 32, later verified the account, tweeting: "Wayne Rooney is entering the twitterverse tweeps!!
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