Anonymous does it for the lulz: Aims for Twitter’s 1 Millionth follower
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In case you’re not part of the “Twitterati”, Ashton Kutcher and CNN are dueling in a faceoff to become the first account to gain 1,000,000 followers, as each only need less than 35,000 followers to gain this achievement.
On Wednesday evening, users from the “Anonymous” message board learned of Kutcher and CNNbrk’s faceoff and decided to see if they could create an account and become the first to break a million followers. In less past twenty four hours, thanks to auto-account-generation and auto-following scripts, twitter.com/basementdad has amassed a staggering 300,000 followers; at this rate they will pass the million mark in less than two days.
Users from the Anonymous board, nicknamed “e/b/aumstards”, are known for pulling pranks on the mass media, and their trolling and hijacking of Time.com’s “World’s Most Influential People of 2009” has led to media attention, especially concerning the site’s founder, Moot (he insists on not capitalizing his name).
The basementdad account, aka “Dr. Joseph Frieschel”, refers to Joe Fritzl, the Austrian who became part of a media whirlwind earlier this year and is serving life imprisonment for keeping his daughter in his basement for twenty four years.
This prank may be tasteless, but of course Anonymous does it for the lulz.
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is this win or is this win
we’re not called e/b/aumstards. Everyone knows that eric baum steals shit from his users and doesn’t give them credit for it. He takes it all. We are Anon, we are Legion.
LOL ebaum, get your facts straight asshole. We are from habbo hotel.
Ebaums did it. Those fuckers.
where not using automated scripts. It’s a firefox mod that simply lowers the amount of things we do manually. Every account is made by a HUMAN.
the only auto entering was the names and shit… 300,000 + accounts where made manually u prick. fuck up again like that and you’ll receive some lulz upon your site. ps i suck cox
probably those dicks from ebaum’s world.
isn’t he from australia?
Duude, “e/b/aumstards”??!?! WTF IS THIS SHIT. And yes, you need to get your facts right; all the accounts were created manually, by humans. Simple auto-filling addons were used for such unimportant things as the name, email etc. And why is it such a big deal about moot not capitalizing his name? This article insta-failed when “e/b/aumstards” was employed (seriously wtf is THAT?). There are no lulz here. Please look elsewhere.
Wow, what a newfag. Be glad he didn’t mention what actual website it came from. 1, 2. memorize them
lots of newfags in this article. damn those people from ebaumsworld!
Ashton won! /b/ loses this on3!
http://twitter.com/basementdad
anon forever
Do it for the lulz
atleast 1,000 added from me.
long live anon
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/technology/802683/impos …
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FIGHT THE POWAH
row row
Sorry, anons. Kutcher’s minutes away now.
ashton kutcher just won… it was rigged!
Rules 1 and 2, what a newfag
lulz did u just watch sum lemon demon? hmm? “every noes that eric steals his shit”<– semi quote
it’s 2003 allready? fag
This is definite win.
epic lulz, and epic win
Yeah, he’s from Australia. The writer on this site got it wrong.
Wow, what a newfag. Be glad he didn’t mention what actual website it came from. 1, 2. memorize them
ur a fag
YES! lots of newfags posting comments.
those rules suck. maybe /b/ should make some oc instead of copypasta from fightclub.