Random: Masahiro Sakurai now has a million followers on Twitter

Japanese game director Masahiro Sakurai, responsible for some of the greatest crossovers in video game history, recently gained a million followers on Twitter. Yes, he now has a million fans who check his social media account daily.

According to Sakurai’s profile, he first joined Twitter in 2010 and his popularity has grown along with the Super Smash Bros video game series. He notified everyone of his latest milestone in a tweet. Here’s a rough Google translation:

Masahiro Sakurai: “And the number of Twitter followers was secretly over 1,000,000. Thank you so much!”

If that wasn’t enough, his second silver play button for him Another The YouTube channel account was also delivered. Look here:

Sakurai launched both of these YouTube channels at the end of last month to thank the video game industry as well as help aspiring developers. Both his English and Japanese channels quickly surpassed 100,000 subscribers each, and he now has over 800,000 subscribers in total.

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