Some guy started following me on Twitter today. He has more than three million followers. I was intrigued; what’s so special about this guy’s tweets to have all those followers? So I picked a random day and was rewarded with this:
I had a dream that the Russians were bombing us and it was scary.
— Ben Landis (@benlandis) August 30, 2018
… this:
If there were a company that liked putting faces in books and wanted to be known as the Facebook, what’s the likelihood they could buy up all the rights to the name?
— Ben Landis (@benlandis) August 31, 2018
… and this:
Remember, money is the key to everything.
— Ben Landis (@benlandis) August 30, 2018
The day before, he tweeted, “Collectively, the USA has around 200 trillion in assets, and around 50 trillion in debt … “
Actually it’s $270 trillion in assets and $146 trillion in debt. Close.
Guess what this young man does for a living. Come on, give it a shot. I’ll wait …
Ready for the big reveal? He gets celebrities and companies more followers by managing their social media — presumably with inspiring, insightful, accurate witticisms like those on his own feed.
You just can’t make this stuff up folks.
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The sad thing? It actually appears to work. More proof that Idiocracy is already here, and way ahead of schedule. Now I’m really depressed. Going inside to make a tuna melt. Catch ya’ll tomorrow.
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