Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has over 50,000 followers on the internet micro-blogging site Twitter.

Medvedev opened his Twitter account and sent his first tweets during a visit to the Twitter headquarters in California's Silicon Valley on June 23.

The Russian president is registered under KremlinRussia for Russian-language tweets and KremlinRussia_e for English speakers.

Within 12 hours of opening his Twitter account, Medvedev had more than 15,000 followers. The Russian-language version now has more than 45,000 followers, and another 32,000 are following the president's English tweets.

KremlinRussia is the first Russian microblog to receive a "verified" status from Twitter Inc., which confirms that the account is owned by the Russian president.

Medvedev, who portrays himself as a young and technologically savvy leader, also has a blog on LiveJournal and an account on YouTube.

MOSCOW, July 21 (RIA Novosti)