No tweets but lots of followers for Charlie Sheen

WASHINGTON - A Twitter account in the name of Charlie Sheen was piling up followers at a blistering pace on Tuesday -- even though the troubled US actor had yet to fire off a single "tweet."

The @charliesheen account had attracted more than 105,000 followers just hours after it was created -- and verified by Twitter.

The only message on the account was a line saying that "@charliesheen hasn't tweeted yet."

In a series of rambling interviews on US television shows on Monday, Sheen railed against the producers of his hit TV show, "Two and a Half Men," demanded a 50 percent pay rise and vowed to sue over its cancellation.

The star, who was briefly hospitalized in January after a mega-party at his Los Angeles home, also rejected the concern of his actor father Martin, calling it the "gibberish of fools."

Hours after the interviews, Sheen's publicist Stan Rosenfield announced he was quitting. (report from Agence France-Presse)