What a peculiar business. My head hurts.
Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron is auctioning his Twitter account here on ebay.
The value theoretically lies in the number of people following him on Twitter. That number has gone up since he put it up for sale. At the time of writing, he has 1,595 followers and the bidding is at $1,235.
I'm not bidding for it. Microblogging does my head in. It just makes me want to scream "Make it stop! Make it stop!" Ironically, Rocketboom expresses it well for me:
Mind you, sometimes it has its uses.
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Twitter explained in song. :-)
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