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    The Spitzer Files: Today Offers to Help Spitzer's Flack Land a Job at NBC

    This 16-Year-Old Has 120,000 Twitter Followers, Brighter Future Than You

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    Image of Shadowlayer Shadowlayer
    12:33 AM

    In reply to This 16-Year-Old Has 120,000 Twitter Followers, Brighter Future Than You
    Meh, how many of these "wonder kids" we saw during the last dotcom bust a decade ago and yet we hear nothing from them nowadays?

    I read something about this kid daniel a while ago: his startup is merely a custom wordpress site, not even coded (if you can call putting a WP site together coding) by him but some 25 yr old which he payed for that if I recall correctly.

    But you know whats even funnier? Back in my teens I would stumble with guys like daniel all the time. They were a dime-a-dozen, and all of them my age or even a couple years older.

    Problem? well, to put it simple none of them could keep up with the BS: having some knowledge in tech just didnt compare to a CS graduate, and as soon as they reached their 20s the bright kid was replaced by an average guy who couldnt do what most of his peers did everyday.

    Being so reluctant to even try college, to the point of calling it a waste of time ('cause working in a common startup for 5 years until its bankrupt really pays out!) this kid is going to find himself flipping burgers and living with his parents well into his 30s.

    In a scam like this, you can only keep pumping bullshit until a better scammer comes by, which is what daniel over here is going to learn the hard way in a few years from now.

    This kid is basically a product, like a star child being push fowards by his money-grabbing parents.
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    Image of El_Gato El_Gato
    11/05/09

    In reply to The Spitzer Files: Today Offers to Help Spitzer's Flack Land a Job at NBC
    I imagine Shelly Ross will be extremely furious with Christine Anderson for talking such smack behind her back. I never understood why people who work for government agencies that get FOIA'ed all the time still use their government e-mail accounts to say things they wouldn't want made public. #today
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    Image of pufflehuff pufflehuff
    11/05/09

    In reply to This 16-Year-Old Has 120,000 Twitter Followers, Brighter Future Than You
    That photo of him looks like Peep Show: The Wonder Years.

    He's Mark, obviously.

    Anyone out there I didn't lose? #danielbrusilovsky
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    11/05/09

    In reply to The Spitzer Files: Today Offers to Help Spitzer's Flack Land a Job at NBC

    No current or future story on Spitzer can ever hope to trump that NY mag cover that so sucintly and perfectly summarized his persona & M.O. back in March 2008. An image = one thousand words, and all that. #today
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    Image of GORDONGARTRELLE GORDONGARTRELLE
    11/05/09

    In reply to The Spitzer Files: Today Offers to Help Spitzer's Flack Land a Job at NBC
    "Can you send" me -- communications director for the governor of the State of New York -- a New York Daily News article. "Unreal" indeed. #today
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    Image of gladys_kravitz gladys_kravitz
    11/05/09

    In reply to The Spitzer Files: Today Offers to Help Spitzer's Flack Land a Job at NBC
    I hope Silda gave the doorman a good holiday tip for having to deal with all these asses. #today
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    Image of Hockeymom Hockeymom
    11/05/09

    In reply to The Spitzer Files: Today Offers to Help Spitzer's Flack Land a Job at NBC
    The most interesting thing about this is that working for Shelly Ross is still worse than working for a Governor who has a hooker habit. #today
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    Image of Magister Magister
    11/05/09

    In reply to The Spitzer Files: Today Offers to Help Spitzer's Flack Land a Job at NBC
    Lt. Gov Paterson's strong and storied leadership

    Um... okay. Did he have a backstory?
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    Image of Gabriel Snyder Gabriel Snyder
    11/05/09

    @Magister: That was my favorite line, too. #today
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    Image of Valerie Flame Valerie Flame
    11/05/09

    In reply to The Spitzer Files: How the New York Times and the Press Serviced Client No. 9
    At the very least, Gawker got some higher quality commenters out of this one.

    You'll learn more about reporting here than in four years of J-school. #eliotspitzer
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    Image of Bottle-Of-Smoke Bottle-Of-Smoke
    11/04/09

    In reply to This 16-Year-Old Has 120,000 Twitter Followers, Brighter Future Than You
    "Brighter future" = prematurely ejaculating in his cargo pants while Meghan Asha dry-humps him. #danielbrusilovsky
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    Image of Brad Brown Brad Brown
    11/04/09

    In reply to This 16-Year-Old Has 120,000 Twitter Followers, Brighter Future Than You
    Are you eyeballing me, boy? Don't you eyeball me! #danielbrusilovsky
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    raincoaster promoted this comment Brad Brown was starred Brad Brown was unstarred
    Image of Bottle-Of-Smoke Bottle-Of-Smoke
    11/04/09

    In reply to This 16-Year-Old Has 120,000 Twitter Followers, Brighter Future Than You
    "Brighter future" = picking out many a wedgie. #danielbrusilovsky
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    Image of YG2012 YG2012
    11/04/09

    In reply to This 16-Year-Old Has 120,000 Twitter Followers, Brighter Future Than You
    He better watch out, because here's who's coming up behind him. #danielbrusilovsky
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    snugbug promoted this comment YG2012 was starred YG2012 was unstarred
    Image of BunnySkull BunnySkull
    11/07/09

    @YG2012: I think I'd rather gnaw my own fingers off than have to sit through dinner with that precocious twat. #danielbrusilovsky
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    11/04/09

    In reply to This 16-Year-Old Has 120,000 Twitter Followers, Brighter Future Than You
    When I was about this kid's age, I attended a Mac User Group meeting in my local area. The local MUG leadership was a lot of guys who looked and acted like Dave Winer, Mike Arrington, Robert Scoble, etc. -- self-important shitbrains who weren't even legitimate nerds.

    The only thing worse than knowing about their pathetic corner of the Universe back then is having it covered by mainstream outlets today. #danielbrusilovsky
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/04/09

    In reply to This 16-Year-Old Has 120,000 Twitter Followers, Brighter Future Than You
    If he was a ballroom dancer, I'd be impressed. All the best kids are now ballroom dancers. #danielbrusilovsky
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