{"id":6858,"date":"2009-03-26T21:58:46","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T04:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6858"},"modified":"2009-03-26T22:20:42","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T05:20:42","slug":"volcom-tweaking-twitter-tweeter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6858","title":{"rendered":"Volcom Tweaking Twitter Tweeter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/volcomtweet.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/volcomtweet.jpg','popup','width=659,height=89,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/volcomtweet-tm.jpg\" height=\"58\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Volcomtweet\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephen Teran<\/strong> is a 6&#8217;5&#8243; shoe salesman from Tucson, Arizona who happens to have <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/volcom\" target=\"_blank\">Volcom<\/a><\/strong> as his Twitter username. He has 60 followers and likes to update with comments like &#8220;Taking the trash out. I want to go home already. Supposed to leave 2 hrs ago,&#8221; and &#8220;buying some sonoran hot dogs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tonight Mr. Teran got the following tweet from the <strong>Volcom<\/strong> marketing division&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/williemarshall\" target=\"_blank\">Willie Marshall<\/a><\/strong>: &#8220;@volcom yo hit me up, I got a proposition for you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re guessing that Willie is hoping to obtain Mr. Teran&#8217;s username. It will be interesting to see how this little proposition turns out because there are a couple more Twitter brand squatters out there who may be waiting in line for some propositions of their own: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/burton\" target=\"_blank\">Burton<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/billabong\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/quiksilver\" target=\"_blank\">Quiksilver<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/electric\" target=\"_blank\">Electric<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/roxy\" target=\"_blank\">Roxy<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nixon\" target=\"_blank\">Nixon<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dakine\" target=\"_blank\">Dakine<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/hurley\" target=\"_blank\">Hurley<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/adio\" target=\"_blank\">Adio<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ripcurl\" target=\"_blank\">Rip Curl<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/independent\" target=\"_blank\">Independent<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/vans\" target=\"_blank\">Vans<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/oneill\" target=\"_blank\">O&#8217;Neill<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/etnies\" target=\"_blank\">Etnies<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/emerica\" target=\"_blank\">emerica<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/gravis\" target=\"_blank\">Gravis<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/k2\" target=\"_blank\">K2<\/a><\/strong> and more.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like Twitter caught the action sports industry by surprise. Why does that <em>not<\/em> surprise us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Teran is a 6&#8217;5&#8243; shoe salesman from Tucson, Arizona who happens to have Volcom as his Twitter username. He has 60 followers and likes to update with comments like &#8220;Taking the trash out. I want to go home already. Supposed to leave 2 hrs ago,&#8221; and &#8220;buying some sonoran hot dogs.&#8221; Tonight Mr. Teran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6858"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6863,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6858\/revisions\/6863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}