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Tony is the CEO of Zappos.
Tony is a nice guy.
Tony is very popular on Twitter.
Please stop following Tony.

(Is that haiku? It seems haiku-ey…)

Background:

I’ve been hanging out with Tony this weekend at Yanik Silver’s Underground Marketing conference. It’s sort of annoying being his groupie when I’m seriously such a big deal myself (Weezer tribute band people! http://myspace.com/budweezertime), but I’ve had worse jobs.

He flew out to DC on the same day that I did, so I sent him a tweet about getting a beer. Tony remembered me from April 2008 when I thanked him for sending me a $100 Zappos gift certificate after I won an impromptu contest og his. I paid it forward a few weeks later with my 6 Words Twitter story contest.

More about that here, here, and here:
- “Thanks Tony” outtakes video
- Contest idea hatched…
- Contest winners voted upon (out of 200+ entries)

Good times *continuing* to be had by all. =)
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So there I was sitting on the couch on a Friday night, enjoying a nice liquid bread drink. Tony (who only had a few thousand followers at the time and was “new” to Twitter just like me) was walking through a Vegas casino on his way to a Van Halen tribute band concert.

He sent out a tweet like, “What’s your favorite Van Halen song?”

And so I was all, “Panama, of course!”

And so he was all, “Ok, I got 16 responses back. First number on roulette between 1 and 16 gets a prize.”

And so then like 3 minutes later he was all, “@editweapon, number 13! Send me an email to tony at zappos.”

And so then I was all, “Dude that is so awesome! And I hope that Jenny The Bloggess doesn’t get all ‘hey editweapon is stealing my trademarked so i was all and then he was all routine.”

That whole conversation is completely true. Except for that last part about Jenny. I didn’t know about Jenny last April.

Now go sign up and follow Tony and me .

UPDATE: This is me trying to say thank you to Tony. I’m obviously not good on camera. (Btw, this is not PG.)