By Wonda J
Usain Bolt is not only a dazzling now decorated Olympian, he is also a Twitter Record breaker and
digital photographer.
The 25-year-old Jamaican won in the 200 meter dash yesterday, making him the first runner to win gold in the 100- and 200-meters in consecutive Olympics and now he can add another record to those accomplishments.
The Twitter machine just announce that over 80,000 tweets per minute (TPM) were sent when he won the gold. “@usainbolt sets a new Olympic Games conversation record with over 80,000 TPM for his 200m victory,” Twitter announced in a tweet, naturally.
Usain himself Tweets and he told everyone at a press conference yesterday to follow him on the twitter machine service. But he also takes his own Olympic digital pictures.
Right after winning the 200m dash, he grabbed a DSLR (digital SLR) camera from a nearby Scandinavian press photographer and began excitedly snapping shots himself. According to the Telegraph, “He entertained the cheering crowd by snapping away, swinging the wide angle lens camera between the track and the stadium.” The photos that Bolt snapped have been uploaded to the Scandinavian newspaper, Aftonbladet.
Please don’t panic people, Bolt put down the camera and got in front of the lens soon thereafter.
