Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize for Literature, Twitter breaks out into a song

Today, 75-year-old rock legend Bob Dylan became the first songwriter to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was awarded the prize "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".

Born Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941, Dylan began his musical career in 1959, playing in coffee houses in Minnesota. With the win, he became the first American to win the award since novelist Toni Morrison in 1993.

Twitter broke into a celebration over the American song-writer's win.

Bob Dylan just won the Nobel Prize so here's a photo of me lurking in front of his boyhood home. pic.twitter.com/Vo2wCHyy18

— Jon Wurster (@jonwurster) October 13,2016

2016 Literature Laureate Bob Dylan, age 75, born on May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota, USA. #NobelPrize

— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 13, 2016

Bob Dylan,like any true artiste was compelled to walk away from his followers.He wrote d poem that came to him not wht his fans wanted .

— Sudhir Mishra (@IAmSudhirMishra) October 13, 2016

And yes Bob Dylan only wrote songs of love, longing and protest. But mostly protest. No poet is a poet unless he sings of protest.

— Pritish Nandy (@PritishNandy) October 13, 2016

Bob Dylan!!!! What an inspired choice!!! Nobel for Literature - wow! Songs and songwriters finally get their due!

— Shobhaa De (@DeShobhaa) October 13, 2016

Bob Dylan finally makes the Nobel Prize seem worthy and meaningful. Like a rolling stone, tombstone blues??...#NobelLiteraturePrize

— SUHEL SETH (@suhelseth) October 13, 2016