Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Google‘s Eric Schmidt, who earlier this year as a spray called Twitter “email system owned by the poor”, has joined the network of micro-blogs is rising. Schmidt “tweet” (tweeting) beneath the account @ ericschmidt, a spokeswoman said on Twitter Twitter messages, Monday, as quoted by AFP. Google CEO’s account is activated starting December 1. Schmidt has sent two “tweets”, one of them connected with an opinion he wrote last week in The Wall Street Journal, and collect nearly 7500 followers in less than a week.

Schmidt had made insulting remark about Twitter in Stabnley Morgan Technology Conference in San Francisco in March, then quickly turned his words were in the next comment, saying: “We admire Twitter.” “We think Twitter has done a very good job by showing a new way to communicate thoroughly,” he said. Twitter as a potential of search engines has led to immediate speculation that Google might be interested in buying the company. Twitter that makes its users to spray messages with 140 characters or less, has appeared surge in popularity since its launch in August 2006. (*)