Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)

■ O.J. Simpson made his Twitter debut saying, “I’ve got a little getting even to do.”

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O.J. Simpson has made his first Twitter post. It won’t be his last.

The ex-NFL star, ex-convict and current Las Vegas resident made the announceme­nt with a 22-second video posted @TheRealOJ just before 9 p.m. Friday.

“Hey Twitter world, this is yours truly, coming soon to Twitter, you’ll get to read my thoughts and opinions on just about everything,” Simpson said in a selfie clip. “Now, there’s a lot of fake O.J. accounts out there, so this one, @TheRealOJ3­2, is the only official one. This should be a lot of fun. I’ve got a little getting even to do. God bless, and take care.”

Simpson is shown with a golf course in the background. He’s reportedly been residing at a home in Red Rock Country Club in Summerlin since October 2017, after his release from prison in Lovelock, where he served a nine-year sentence for his robbery-kidnapping conviction in Las Vegas.

Simpson is likely to be a force on the social media platform. His original video amassed nearly 3 million views, and he garnered more than 145,000 followers in just 12 hours. Responses flooded in, too, with one poster writing, “Me leaving Twitter when I hear OJ Say he’s got some ‘getting even to do,’ ” with a

GIF of the infamous white

Ford Bronco chase in L.A. in June 1994.

Another posted, “I hope that you are making some progress in identifyin­g the real killers.”

In an Associated Press story last week, Simpson said of his time in Las Vegas, “The town has been good to me. Everybody I meet seems to be apologizin­g for what happened to me here.”

The story was published on the 25th anniversar­y of the murders of Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.

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