Kanye West who has over 450,000 twitter followers and was not following anyone himself, suddently picked one random person to follow last Friday (July 31, 2010). This lucky person is a 19 year old student from England named Steven Holmes, who is not thrilled with the sudden fame. At first, he says, it was fun, but he started getting many calls from reporters, including CNN, BBC and New York Magazine that wanted to interview him. He also been contacted by many individuals who are trying to get Kanye’s attention for business purposes, such sending him demo tapes of their music.
Steven Holmes, who goes by Twitter ID “ste_101”, wrote on his Twitter “”Holy *&$% bro thx for following!” Kanye replied: “You are the chosen one dun dun dun dun.”
The British student has seen his followers grow to over 5000 due to this sudden fame. However, he posted: “This has been completely surreal and I really have no desire for this attention i’m just a normal person. I won’t be speaking to anybody else, surprisingly not everyone wants to be famous. That’s all I’m saying – peace out x.”
Many Twitter users who are business oriented or run businesses are trying to grow their followers, mainly for marketing purposes. The other day I ran into a company that does social media marketing services and can help with building twitter followers. They are called iClimber. Check out their website at www.iclimber.com.
