Anonymous does it for the lulz: Aims for Twitter’s 1 Millionth follower 30
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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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