A factory worker now earns £5,000 a year doing promotions on social
media after he became popular when Kim Kardashian replied to his tweet.
Jerome Billingham, 25, was a factory worker, packing laundry for a
living, when he sent Kim an innocent tweet in 2013, saying: "Do you
notice your fans? I love you loads! #hotlove."
"Love you too," Kim replied and Jerome's followers skyrocketed from 200 to 20,000 in a week.
Jerome now has more than half a million followers on his two Twitter
accounts with his main account getting six million views a
month. Clothing companies now send him free clothes at his family home
in Louth, Lincolnshire, and dozens of other businesses send him free
samples while begging him to promote their goods.
He now makes an estimated £5,000 a year tweeting about high street
companies, such as Primark. He also does promotional work for E4.
The 25-year-old said: "I was doing a 6 a.m. shift at my work in a
factory and I'd seen she'd tweeted something, I can't even remember what
she tweeted now, but I just replied to ask if she ever noticed her
fans. I didn't think anything of it and was walking to work and then my
phone just started going ping ping ping and going crazy.
"I thought: 'What the hell's happened?' and actually wondered if
there had been a technological fault with my phone but then I saw
hundreds and thousands of replies saying: 'Congratulations, well done
son'."
In addition to his clothing promotions, Jerome gets into clubs and
gets alcohol for free in exchange for free tweets. He now works for
Haven Holidays but hopes to concentrate full time on social media soon.
He said: "I have had so many people reach out and offer
sponsorship. Lad Bible and Boohooman wanted me to work for them. I did
campaigns for E4's Tattoo Fixers, Primark's Christmas range, they'd sent
me stuff and pay me almost £100 a tweet. I do that much on Twitter now I
can barely keep up with it all."
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