Keith Olbermann Issues His First Post-Countdown Tweet (Pretty Much)

Earlier tonight, now-former Countdown host Keith Olbermann sent his first tweet since his departure from MSNBC’s airwaves Friday. The subject? To announce that he would be sending his first post-Countdown tweet at 8pm Eastern time. The strange announcement is probably a humorous tweak at the speculation that ensued following an innocuous update to his Twitter profile on Saturday.

Find out what Olbermann had to say in his (technically second) post-Countdown tweet after the jump.

On Saturday, Olbermann updated his Twitter profile to read ““WATCHTHISSPACE MLB.com Baseball Nerd blog returns 2/14.” The update caused speculation that he might return to sports, so the message on Olbermann’s Twitter profile was later tweaked to more clearly separate the messages. It now reads “W A T C H__________T H I S__________S P A C E (Also: MLB.Com Baseball Nerd blog returns 2/14).”

Since then, he also updated his profile to read “You might very well think so; I could not possibly comment,” perhaps having a little bit of fun at the anticipation that greeted his earlier updates. Now, his profile reads “#WatchThisSpace http://keitholbermann.mlblogs.com/.”

Well, the wait is finally over. The big Keith Olbermann tweet of the night reads:

Citizens Of The Free World: Greetings! …….. (more to come) #FOK

You heard it here first. For the uninitiated, #FOK is the Twitter hashtag for Friends of Keith.

Updates: Olbermann goes on to tweet:

My humble thanks to all Friends of Keith for the many kind words. The reports of the death of my career are greatly exaggerated #FOK

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