Article by: Phillip Brunelle
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LOS ANGELES, CA - Setting new trends, creating infamous and bizarre quotes, and breaking online records, actor Charlie Sheen has taken over the Internet, more specifically Twitter.
Before March 1st, 2011 citizens of the Twitter community were going about their lives as usual... until Charlie Sheen joined the frenzy with his confusing, unsound tweets which had several people scratching their heads, many people concerned, and others cheering him on. Despite the confusion and concern, to date Sheen has nearly 2.5MIL followers.
A spokesperson for Twitter confirmed that Charlie Sheen has broken the all-time record with the most unique profile views and number of followers in the shortest amount of time. Sheen's record-breaking accomplishment didn't go unnoticed, his Twitter status got the attention of advertising firms, including ad.ly who made Sheen an offer he couldn't refuse and on March 7th, 2011 came Sheen's first endorsement tweet, seen in the photo below.
Following Charlie Sheen's endorsed tweet, ad.ly reported in the first hour internships.com received 95,333 click-throughs from Sheen's tweet, and more than 412,000 clicks within just 48 hours. Advertising firms confirmed that Sheen had the highest paid Twitter endorsement in history, yet another Charlie Sheen record.
So what does this mean for the nearly 80,000 applicants for the Charlie Sheen internship? Sheen never had intentions on hiring an intern, and with his naturally increasing following of web-based fans, he hardly needs to pay someone as a marketing intern. The position of Sheen's marketing intern would have never been offered in the first place had he not accepted an endorsement by Internships.com through his advertising agent ad.ly.
With consideration to the current state-of-mind of Charlie Sheen, the legal battles and the challenges of his personal life, Sheen has little time for his professional entourage as it is, could you imagine how he would find the time to fulfill the intentions behind his tweet of working with someone new? Especially someone who is getting paid to defeat the purpose of all of the Charlie Sheen followers. Would you still follow Sheen if someone else was doing his tweeting? No more random, confusing and weird Sheen tweets, what would be the point?
So Charlie Sheen, Mr. TigerBlood, how much did your endorsement net you? We may never know... ad.ly refuses to release how much Sheen was paid, Charlie is upset with the media right now and is not commenting... Charlie Sheen may be winning, but we don't think there is a winning chance of an intern, and this was all just exactly what it appears, a paid endorsement with an empty promise from the publics latest celebrity meltdown.
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