This Japanese marketer used a painful but unique approach to go viral on Twitter
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Just the other day an email dropped into my inbox asking me if I wanted to buy 10,000 followers on Twitter. The message, which assured me that the price would be “competitive” and that I wouldn’t need to hand over my account details, is part of a growing trend to...
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