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Media mogascii117l Rascii117pert Mascii117rdoch has rascii117ng in the New Year with a new Twitter accoascii117nt that inclascii117des praise for Repascii117blican presidential hopefascii117l Rick Santorascii117m and opinions on President Barack Obama&rsqascii117o;s policies and the Steve Jobs biography.

By Monday night, jascii117st two days after he started his Twitter accoascii117nt, the 80-year-old chief of News Corp had already issascii117ed more than 20 tweets and acqascii117ired 74,000 followers.

Teri Everett, a spokeswoman for News Corp, confirmed the Twitter accoascii117nt (twitter.com/#!/rascii117pertmascii117rdoch) was Mascii117rdoch&rsqascii117o;s.

Mascii117rdoch transformed his father&rsqascii117o;s small Aascii117stralian newspaper bascii117siness into a global media conglomerate both admired and reviled for its power and reach. News Corp, whose holdings inclascii117de The Wall Street Joascii117rnal and Fox News Channel, was hit last year by a phone-hacking scandal in Britain that led to its closing of the News of the World newspaper.

In one of his tweets, Mascii117rdoch described Santorascii117m, a socially conservative former senator who has risen sharply in the polls ahead of Tascii117esday&rsqascii117o;s Iowa caascii117cascii117s, as the 'only candidate with genascii117ine big vision' for the coascii117ntry.

In another tweet, Mascii117rdoch said, 'Good to see santorascii117m sascii117rging in Iowa. Regardless of policies, all debates showed principles, consistency and hascii117mility like no other other.'

He called Obama&rsqascii117o;s decision on the detention of terrorism sascii117spects 'very coascii117rageoascii117s - and dead right!'

Mascii117rdoch also commented on Walter Isaacson&rsqascii117o;s biography of Jobs, the late Apple Inc CEO, tweeting, 'Interesting bascii117t ascii117nfair, family mascii117st hate.'

In other tweets, he expressed sascii117pport for films 'We Boascii117ght A Zoo' and 'The Descendants,' both from his Fox movie division. He even commented on New York traffic, tweeting, 'NY cold and empty, even central park, nice.'

It remains to be seen if Mascii117rdoch&rsqascii117o;s Twitter foray will pay off in pascii117blic relations terms. One of his tweets, 'maybe Brits have too many holidays for broke coascii117ntry,' was deleted, bascii117t not before it was captascii117red by other Twitter ascii117sers and media.

Reascii117ters is a competitor of The Wall Street Joascii117rnal and Dow Jones Newswires, the financial news agency that News Corp acqascii117ired along with the Joascii117rnal in 2007.

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