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Dad's Rants Become a Twitter Hit

in News on September 3, 2009 at 2:14 pm PT

Until last week, Justin Halpern’s 73-year-old father didn’t know that he was a Twitter sensation. His dad’s quips have resulted in more than 231,000 followers under the account name @s–mydadsays. But after it attracted wide attention in recent weeks as followers retweeted postings, and blogs and mainstream media covered it, Mr. Halpern finally broke the news.

Guy Kawasaki Can Handle Being Called a Spammer

in News on March 24, 2009 at 11:33 am PT

To kick off his keynote speech at SES, a marketing conference in New York, Guy Kawasaki asked how many people in the audience were on Twitter at that moment. Hands shot up across the packed ballroom. “Yeah, that’s what I was afraid of,” he said.