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Diana Ross has joined Twitter and the results are amazing

By Nick Bond

Earlier this week, the legendary Diana Ross, 71-year-old singer, actress, Supreme and seller of more than 100 million records worldwide, joined Twitter. This momentous landmark may have passed you by, focused as we all were this week on Caitlyn Jenner joining Twitter – and promptly smashing Barack Obama’s record for fastest time to reach 1 million followers.

Ms Ross’s Twitter debut has been more of a soft opening, with a little over 25,000 followers thus far – but as her first tweet heralded, she’s having a great time:

So far, so good. However, Diana’s tweets soon took a strange turn:

Get Sia on the line, that sounds like a hit in waiting.

Then there’s this lovely sentiment, apparently presented in the form of a Haiku:

And if anyone knows what this next tweet means, please contact us at once:

While Diana Ross has tweeted just seven times so far, we’ve got one thing to say: Cher, watch your back. Your position as the most enjoyably incomprehensible diva on Twitter is UNDER THREAT.