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This Space for Rent: Overheard on Twitter #6

Posted on 18 April 2008 (4)

Andrew Baron tried selling his account on eBay this week. The eBay auction has closed, but you can still see the bidding history here, as it went as high as $1,550.

Publicity stunt? Yes. Original? Yes. The real story here was that it received lots of exposure.
Speaking of exposure, is a limited commercialization of [...]

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How to be Popular: Overheard on Twitter #5

Posted on 11 April 2008 (9)

18 minute old Twitter account – 2 updates – 400 followers. The math doesn’t add up, does it?

You know what happened? Jason Calacanis said “follow him.” (I took out my angst on the picture, can you tell?)
I really enjoyed refreshing every 3 seconds to see another dozen or so followers adding Mr. Modine, and some [...]

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