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Just got off a flight and saw this email in my inbox…

dangurewitch:

rickyv:

From: Amir
Date: April 1, 2009 1:19:01 PM EDT
To: ALL
Subject: help us april fools ricky

Ricky told us writers that MTV greenlit a second season… as an april fools joke.
To get him back we are starting a fake twitter account and trying to get as many followers as possible. To help us out please reblog jakes post about it:
http://jakehurwitz.tumblr.com/post/91954435/whoa-look-who-started-a-twitter-follow-our-boss
and if you’re going to add commentary, keep it very real.
If you have a twitter, please tweet about it.
Ricky is on a flight until 4pm, so we have only 3 precious hours to get as many people to follow his twitter as possible. 
Thanks in advance!
-Amir and co.

Had a great time with this today. We garnered Fake Ricky 1,140 followers while he was on an airplane. I believe our magnum opus was when our Ricky claimed “Social Experiment: If i can get to 500 followers by 3:30 (eastern) I’ll twitpic my dick. No gimmix,” then later twittered a picture of his flaccid penis. (An e-mail from Ricky said: “well done, btw. I had emails from all sorts of people that weren’t expecting to see a photo of my dick today.”) We also posted his phone number. Here’s the Twitter we started, though who knows how long it will remain.

So this was pretty amazing.