Were you wondering why Chris Ovitz, Director of Business Development at Ad.ly was one of Charlie Sheen's original 10 people he followed on Twitter? It's probably because Ad.ly helped Sheen get his Twitter account verified in record time on Tuesday, March 1.
Twitter has pretty much shut down "verifying" members, except in special cases, like high-profile celebrities such as Charlie Sheen. According to AdAge, Sheen's management got in touch with Ad.ly in the morning on March 1, and after eliminating the cybersquatter at @charliesheen, the account was up and ready to go (and verified) by 12 PM. Ad.ly CEO Arnie Gullov-Singh said:
He reportedly wanted to use Twitter to speak directly to his fans, and give them his side of the story in the "Two and a Half Men" bruhaha. Of course, he's only Tweeted 17 times so far. At the same time, though, he's already surpassed 1 million followers, in what amounts to be 31 hours at the time of this writing. That's about 576 a minute.
Whether or not Sheen was the fastest to 1 million is unknown, but he was certainly there quickly.
Via: AdAge, TechCrunch
Twitter has pretty much shut down "verifying" members, except in special cases, like high-profile celebrities such as Charlie Sheen. According to AdAge, Sheen's management got in touch with Ad.ly in the morning on March 1, and after eliminating the cybersquatter at @charliesheen, the account was up and ready to go (and verified) by 12 PM. Ad.ly CEO Arnie Gullov-Singh said:
We know a bunch of people at Twitter, and we reached out to them and told them that probably the biggest name in media right now wants to be on your platform and, of course, they were all right with it. But you're right that Twitter doesn't verify, but they make exceptions. The thing about verification in general is that Twitter was getting overwhelmed with requests to be verified -- they don't have a team for this. Same thing at Facebook.Ad.ly's founder, Sean Rad, spoke to TechCrunch and said that in addition to setting up the account, they gave Sheen tips on tweeting, @reply and what a hashtag is.
He reportedly wanted to use Twitter to speak directly to his fans, and give them his side of the story in the "Two and a Half Men" bruhaha. Of course, he's only Tweeted 17 times so far. At the same time, though, he's already surpassed 1 million followers, in what amounts to be 31 hours at the time of this writing. That's about 576 a minute.
Whether or not Sheen was the fastest to 1 million is unknown, but he was certainly there quickly.
Via: AdAge, TechCrunch
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