What made Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum venture into the big, bad world of Twitter?

Not baseball. Soccer.

The Freak, under a very demure @timlincecum certified Twitter handle, unleashed his very first tweet to the world Thursday afternoon to congratulate U.S. soccer midfielder Clint Dempsey.

Dempsey scored a goal yesterday that made history as the fourth ever scored by an American against Italy. Apparently Big Time Timmy Jim was watching.

@timlincecum: “@clint_dempsey @ussoccer just want to say congrats to you and the team on a great job and making the US proud, so pumped for you guys“

As of 4:30 p.m., Lincecum was following three accounts — the Beverly Hills Sports Council, Major League Baseball and the Giants. He also managed to get more than 10,000 followers with one tweet (and the number’s rapidly rising).