Pulse2 Technology and Social Media News » CNNbrk http://pulse2.com Sat, 26 May 2012 21:27:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 CNN Buys CNNbrk Twitter Account From James Cox http://pulse2.com/2009/04/16/cnn-buys-cnnbrk-twitter-account-from-james-cox/ http://pulse2.com/2009/04/16/cnn-buys-cnnbrk-twitter-account-from-james-cox/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:58:06 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=14102 Continue reading →]]> cnnbrk
This is the first time I’ve heard that a Twitter account has been acquired where the buyer was actually believed to be the product owner to begin with.  The product is an account called CNNbrk on Twitter.   CNNbrk reports breaking news that occurs on CNN and it has been managed by James Cox over the last two years.  Today the account has almost 1 million followers and it is racing with Britney and Ashton to hit 1 million followers.  CNN was personally working with Cox on the account for over two years.

CNN.com probably received additional pageviews by the hundreds of thousands through the CNNbrk account so it is likely that CNN paid a healthy amount to take control of it.  The financial details were undisclosed.  If you’re interested in following Cox on Twitter, visit him at: http://twitter.com/imajes.

[via BusinessInsider]

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