Rupert Murdoch's Wife Tweets CNN's Piers Morgan: 'hi piers i hear u are THE person to follow on twitter!! :)'

Update: Wendi's Twitter fake! UK Telegraph

News Corp's 80-year-old boss Rupert Murdoch's first tweet sent from the Caribbean island of St. Barths (or St. Barts) meets the press New Year's Eve.  So far he's hammered out 17 tweets, is following four, and has 54,395 followers. AP

And deleted one hot potato at the behest of his newly tweeting wife, Wendi.  The Week

The UK Guardian finds his first tweet "oddly staccato." Is it really Rupe?  NPR  Yup.

One of Wendi's 51 virgin tweets to CNN's Piers Morgan -- a UK tabloid rag ex-editor under investigation in the Brit phone hacking scandal that's claimed Rupe and his sons -- is merely odd:

NYT "On Yacht, Murdoch Catches the Twitter Wave": Some people sunbathe and drink daiquiris on their Caribbean vacations. Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of the News Corporation, joined Twitter. On Dec. 31 the media mogul, on board his 184-foot yacht, Rosehearty, with his family, was playing with his iPad and decided to join Twitter, according to people close to the company.