Last week I met a kid that a friend of mine mentioned over 8 months ago, would blow up on the music scene. His name… Cody Simpson. Cody is a well spoken 14 year old singer, songwriter, surfer, from Australia who is now signed to a major label. I had dinner with him, his Dad, a few friends and family at a local Memphis Italian spot called Amerigo. We talked about the music biz, surfing, Australia, and finally twitter came up. Now Cody is still a kid, and kids do crazy things. Cody says he has a lot of followers (he was being modest, he had 950,000 at dinner) following him @TheCodySimpson. So to prove he has real fans he decided to tweet that he was having dinner with me, @MoBetter and a few others at the table and told his fans to follows us. What happened next was pure madness… for the next 12 hours my damn iphone almost melted because a 14 year old told people he was having dinner with me and to follow me on twitter. I never thought it would take a 14 year old to make me popular again. In a little over a day, my followers increased by 1,000. I am still getting followers and retweets from that one night with @TheCodySimpson. What have I learned from all of this? Its not what you say on twitter that matters, it only matters who you say it to, and who the hell is saying it.
