James Cox and Ashton Kutcher in CNNbrk Twitter race
April 17th, 2009It came to my attention yesterday that maybe Coxy’s year’s of fiddling about with code and not really doing much “proper” work may have finally resulted in something worthwhile.
Beej told me yesterday about the race between the CNNbrk feed (developed by Coxy) and Ashton Kutcher to get 1,000,000 Twitter followers . Next thing I know James is all over the internet doing interviews with US and UK newspapers explaining how he developed the automated feed a few years back that takes breaking news from CNN and delivers it to mobile phones via a Twitter feed.
The long and short of it is Coxy is now, in a funny way, semi-famous in the geek arena.
BTW: Kutcher’s feed pipped the CNN feed to reach 1,000,000 followers by about 30 mins, still, good going from a Hertfordshire kid who taught himself to code!
devil’s in the details bro. I’m pretty sure you spell newspapers with only one “a” and two “s’s”…
catch you at Brad’s stag!
Posted on: April 17th, 2009 at 10:06 pm