From Mark Borkowski:
How to become internet famous for $68
by Kevin Ashton
Medium.com
The secret of online celebrity Santiago Swallow.
Santiago Swallow may be one of the most famous people no one has heard of.
His eyes fume from his Twitter profile: he is Hollywood-handsome with high cheekbones and dirty blond, collar-length hair. Next to his name is one of social media”™s most prized possessions, Twitter”™s blue “verified account” checkmark. Beneath it are numbers to make many in the online world jealous: Santiago Swallow has tens of thousands of followers. The tweets Swallow sends them are cryptic nuggets of wisdom that unroll like scrolls from digital fortune cookies: “Before you lose weight, find hope,” says one. Another: “To write is to live endlessly.”
His Wikipedia biography explains why: Continue reading “Fame on a Budget”