AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes today said "good bye" to the famous social media Twitter. This time it is real. In April, he took an U-turn on quitting from the social media.

"I will be closing down my Twitter account today. As I said, wait till QPR gets promoted and I reach 50. I may restart dedicated accounts. Goodbye all. Maybe I return. Been fun. And damn useful. Speak the truth be brave," he said in another tweet. Fernandes last tweet was at 2.20pm that he was closing his account.

When this Correspondent checked for his account in the late evening on Friday, Twitter said that the page doesn't exist. AirAsia India officials have also confirmed the development.

In April, Fernandes took everybody into surprise after he tweeted saying he decided to quit from Twitter and April 30th will be last day.

He added, reaching 50 years old. Think I spend to much time on it. It's been awesome but time to move on.

Fernandes used the network very effectively. All major announcements about the airline, offers, discussion on the industry, on his favourite sport activities, industries, birth day wishes, work out in gyms, investors road show anything and everything has been discussed in his account.

Fernandes started Tweeting on December 7, 2008. He had over 9.64 lakh people follow him on this social network. The followers includes Journalists, from across the World.

Earlier, once he was asked why he was making all his announcements through Twitter, he replied saying "I get very good response from you [the media] guys on Twitter. Tatas went mad when I announced first in Twitter about the joint venture. Later they called me, hey, put this in Twitter. The first time, they thought we were crazy."

An AirAsia official, who don't want to be named, once said that "if you want to know all about AirAsia and need a comment from him (Tony), long on to his twitter it is the best way".

True, starting from AirAsia India JV announcement, Mittu Chandilya appointment as AirAsia India CEO, airline getting FIPB and NOCs, everything was first announced in Fernandes.