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Rocketboom Founder Does It eBay With Twitter Account
Source: Mashable!
Apr 13, 2008


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Have you ever wished to have more followers on Twitter? Tired on languishing with only a few dozen spam bots following you? Well, Andrew Baron, founder of Rocketboom, is here to help you make your dream come true.


Mr. Baron feels he has been using his Twitter account improperly, and because he’s set up to dish tweets on the official Rocketboom account on the service, he thinks it is now time to stop using his personal outlet. Instead of just deleting his account, though, he got the idea that perhaps someone would like to take it over for themselves. Seeing as he has 1,471 followers, it would be boring to just give it away, so he did what any red-white-and-blue-blooded American would do. He seeks a sale by putting it up for auction on eBay.



Yes, as of this writing (10:359 AM EST, April 13) the auction is at $510, and going by his own listing, he had 1,397 followers when it started, so this has actually gained him followers, making the assumed value even higher.


In the auction, Baron does offer bidders a preliminary caution: “Also, as with any d Read the full article

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