September 19th, 2011

The Guy Behind The Qwikster Twitter Account Realizes What He Has, Wants A Mountain Of Cash

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Last night, Jason went to bed a normal man, with a normal Twitter account (albeit one with a weed-smoking Elmo as the avatar), and a few dozen followers.

This morning, Jason woke up to an inbox full of messages, thousands of new followers, and wants to sell his account for many thousands of dollars.

As we chronicled last night, Netflix made a rather fundamental mistake in launching their new→ Read More

September 18th, 2011

Uh Oh … Qwikster Already Has A Lively Twitter Account, But It’s Not Owned By Netflix

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Movie delivery service Netflix has just announced that it is rebranding its DVD-by-mail service as Qwikster and that it will keep calling its streaming service Netflix. Shocking news yes, but already the Internet has found one immediate chink in the company’s rebranded armor, other than the fact that, like a multitude of other failed companies, the name ends in “ster” … → Read More