New York, NY - The online marketing world is reeling after the shock chance discovery by a SEO 'professional' that popular social networking site Twitter can be used for marketing purposes.
Ian Molby, 32, has worked in the Search Industry for about eight and a half months, which makes him one of the industry's longest-serving practicioners.
"I couldn't believe it, the idea just came to me," said Molby over Skype on his iPhone. "Twitter is a phenomenon, you have all these people following other people."
"As an experienced SEO professional, it's important to be on top of new web trends and technologies like Twitter. I first heard about it on Oprah."
"So it struck me. All I need to do is set up a profile, and send out bit.ly links to my blog posts each time I slightly rehash them. Then all you need is an audience, so what I've diligently been doing these past few days, is Following every single person who follows Britney Spears, Stephen Fry, Oprah."
"Some of the people I follow will reciprocate and follow me -- some of those will require SEO services -- and some of those will look at one of my blog posts at one time or another. It's a numbers game."
"I guess so far I've spent about 1,000 hours doing this. But hey, if I get one project out of this that pays me $1,000 then it's all worth it."
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