Imagine waking up on a Tuesday morning and picking up your phone to find an endless list of retweets to a post you made eight years ago.
Well, that was what happened today with the user Jeffrey Guity to whom Derek Jeter replied to a tweet.
And it is that Guity in 2014, the year of Jeter’s retirement, wrote: Derek Jeter no longer has an excuse not to have a Twitter account.
To which today the former captain of the New York Yankees replied with his first message on the little bird’s social network: It seems that I have officially run out of excuses.
A few months after stepping down as CEO of the Miami Marlins, Jeter was finally interested in immersing himself in social media. Like many times in his career, Jeter had more than one hit and on his first day he also decided to enter Instagram. On both networks he already exceeds 100,000 followers in a few hours.
The legendary New York Yankees captain listed himself in his online bio like this: Sleep-deprived father to three amazing girls. HOF Class of 2020.
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On Instagram, the Hall of Famer posted a video that gave a little more insight into why he’s jumping onto social media now.
I’m about to start a busy summer so I thought hey why not add a little more craziness and dive in here?” said Jeter, 47. “Now what am I going to post? I guess time will tell, but I hope to share with you some of the projects I have on the way, to give you an idea of what I make of Miami (home). I’m going to highlight the really special work we’re doing at the Turn 2 Foundation and beyond. But, take it easy on me. I am new at this.”
The 47-year-old then responded to a tweet from The Players’ Tribunethe media platform he founded, which posted a photo of a young Jeter with seemingly long hair.
Los The Yankees posted a welcome message to Jeter on their Twitter account. Although his first tweets were on Tuesday, his account says that he joined Twitter in April.
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Playing in pinstripes for the New York Yankees, Jeter led the Big Apple team to victory five World Series titles in a 20-year career where he had 3,465 hits, the sixth most in MLB history.
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