Kobe Bryant joins Twitter, gets obscene amount of followers - Tucson Citizen

Source: USA TODAY

For someone who loves attention as much as Kobe Bryant, it's difficult to believe that the self-proclaimed "Black Mamba" wasn't on Twitter.

That is, until Friday.

Bryant got his account (@KobeBryant) verified and at 12:13 p.m. ET, he tweeted: "The antisocial has become social #mambatweets"

Within hours, Bryant was well over 275,000 followers.

LeBron James is the most-followed NBA player at more than 6.8 million followers.

Kobe is yet to tweet anything else or update his avatar beyond a Twitter bird, so stay tuned for more Mamba-isms.

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