Kanye West performs for Facebook employees & joins Twitter
July 29th, 2010 - 8:15 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
California, July 29 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Kanye West will be releasing a new album soon and he’s joined the social media craze by signing up for an account with the popular social networking and micro blogging site - Twitter.
He was at the premises of Facebook’s Palo Alto, California office on Tuesday and performed for the employees some of the tracks he would be releasing soon. It seems like the rapper is on a social networking spree because he signed up for a Twitter account the next day. One of his tweets said that, “we gone be at 100,000 before I hop on this jet I ain’t go lie, it’s a baby jet not like the one on entourage”
There have been videos of the rapper doing freestyle gigs on top of a conference table on the video streaming website YouTube. He also thanked Facebook employees for their cooperation afterwards in a statement posted on his official website. He said the employees motivated him to give of his best. He said in a statement that, “Your energy was a gift so electric, so genuine, that it really helped me give my best.”
Facebook employees have not made any statement about West’s appreciative comments. The new album is expected to be released on September 14.
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