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Novelist Lee Oi-soo's Memories-Twitter Follow-up Case

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Novelist Lee Oi-soo (Sports Dong-A DB)   The big star of Korean literature has fallen. His name is Lee Oi-soo. He was a huge peak in Korean fiction. Lee Oi-soo died on April 26. The name of his illness was pneumonia, and he was 76 years old. He has been battling pneumonia since last March. But in the end, he didn't win over the disease. Lee was nicknamed "President Twitter." He was a celebrity with 1.7 million followers on Twitter. I have memories of his Twitter account. In 2008, I started Twitter. At that time, it was before the Twitter boom in Korea. Many celebrities, including politicians and celebrities, have just started Twitter. However, there were not many media workers such as journalists. Thanks to this, I could easily get many followers early in my Twitter career as a journalist. My follower count was even interested in the media group I was working for. There was even a time when my follower count was similar to that of Lee Oi-soo. Of course, in less than a mon