MIAMI: Muhammad Ali posted his first Twitter message on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila), 50 years to the day after he stopped Sonny Liston at Miami Beach to win his first heavyweight boxing title.

“I shook up the world against Liston, now 50 years later I’m taking it to Twitter,” Ali wrote with the hashtag AliTweet showing it was from the Ali himelf and a link to a photo of him screaming with his arms upraised seconds after the historic triumph.

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