Anyone who is famous would not find difficulty in getting a good number of followers in many social networks online.

This is indeed the case that happened with American basketball player LeBron James, who had just signed up an account less than 12 hours earlier. He had only made one Twitter update, and yet he gained almost 200,000 followers in Twitter as of this writing. Probably the “verified account” mark on top of his Twitter page made it convincing enough for Twitter followers not to follow other fake LeBron James Twitter profiles.

His friend Chris Paul, an active twitter user, had managed to convince James to open up a verified Twitter account. Paul had also mentioned James in one of his tweets, which contributed to the growth of followers.

LeBron James had yet to decide on which NBA team he will play with.

Here’s LeBron James’s official Twitter page: LeBron James on Twitter