1000th Twitter Follower

So I hit my 1000th Twitter Follower a few weeks back.  In twitter terms that really means I probably hit 200 legitimate followers once you dump out the pornbots and the “social media experts.”

As I noticed I was getting near, I decided to make a contest where I promised a caricature to the 1000th Twitter follower.  Oh you aren’t following me on Twitter yet and missed out.  Now whose fault is that?  Follow me.

Anyway, I was happy to report that number 1000 is an actual person.  And like 1/2 my readership outside the United States, resides in the UK.  So congratulations Robin, you were number 1000.

Robin Miller

Not only is Robin a real person but he is also somewhat of a philanthropist.  He spends many waking hours involved in walks, marathons, and ebay auctions all to raise money for the  Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.  Great Ormond is famous for being given the rights to the play Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie.  So check out Robin on Twitter and one his website, Twelveby12 and tell him I said hi.

Oh…and his caricature.

Robin Miller Caricature

Comments

93 responses to “1000th Twitter Follower”

  1. George Avatar

    That’s a great idea, Bearman. But how do you know for sure who your 1000th follower would be? Do you use a special Tweeter program? or do you just try to pay close attention to your follower stats? These may seem like stupid questions, but you know that i happen to be a stupid guy who wants to wallow in your footsteps, Big Guy.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Well as I hit number 995, I looked at my follower list. It shows them in order from most recent to following you.

      Then I just waited for the 5 more people to follow me and that was number 1000. And what are you talking about? You have more followers than me.

      1. George Avatar

        Most of my followers are kind folks who really wanna help me make money with MLM marketing. Or either they’re just Beliebers. You’ve got real-life, honest-to-gosh mortals. And maybe one immortal.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          Then you need to cater to your audience and do a story arc on Hank becoming part of the Belieber cult.

  2. George Avatar

    Oh, and that is one swell drawing! I would love to have one myself.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I’d be happy to send you the pic I did of Robin. I don’t know why you want it though.

      1. robin Avatar

        ha, what a reply 🙂

        1. Bearman Avatar

          He’s used to it.

      2. George Avatar

        Only if I can get one of Friar Tuck too.

        Robin’s so lucky.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          Are you making a Robin Hood reference? haha

          1. Friggin Loon Avatar

            What about Little John?

          2. Binky Avatar

            He’s embarrassed enough as it is.

  3. robin Avatar

    Thanks once again 🙂 This is awesome, and my friends are already commenting on it 😀

    I’ve placed a link on my site, and will add you to the extra special thanks section tomorrow, in the meantime I’d love any new visitors to come over and check out the site.

    Thanks
    RM

    1. Friggin Loon Avatar

      What do we get Robin? We don’t come cheap…OK, I do, but others may want a back hander 🙂

      1. Bearman Avatar

        Back hander as in a slap or back hander as in a compliment?

        1. Duncanr Avatar

          ‘back hander’ as in bribe/gift 😆

          1. Friggin Loon Avatar

            Blahahaaha Duncan, we have both successfully shat in Robin’s nest. Teach him for being Bearman’s 1000th Twit!

          2. Bearman Avatar

            Well thanks to you two, I am back to 999 hahaha

        2. George Avatar

          What about a reach-around? You don’t hear too much about those anymore. I’d visit anybody’s site for one of those. Yeah.

          1. Bearman Avatar

            Not touching that comment or you for that matter.

          2. Friggin Loon Avatar

            I was reach-arounded once George, it wasn’t pleasant 🙁

    2. Duncanr Avatar

      I’ve scribbled some graffiti over your site, Robin 😆

      P.S. That funny scratching noise you hear ? That’s me rummaging around trying to find a beer while I’m waiting for you to let me out of moderation !!!

      1. Friggin Loon Avatar

        I found a bottle of red under his blogroll Duncan. You obviously didn’t look very hard 🙂

        1. Bearman Avatar

          That is the blood of little Australian girls who go poking around too much.

        2. Duncanr Avatar

          did that red not taste a little strange to you, loon?

          just saying 😆

          1. Friggin Loon Avatar

            Now I come to think of it 🙁

          2. Bearman Avatar

            Reminded her of home.

          3. Friggin Loon Avatar

            Well cat piss with a twist 🙁

            Psst Hey Duncan, you might have a urinary infection, it should have been Chardonnay not friggin Shiraz…I’m just saying

  4. Binky Avatar

    You’re on Twitter?!
    1000 followers?!
    I guess I’ve been missing out.
    And that’s a pretty good caricature, too. Do you do your drawings with markers?

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Nope. Everything is done with Photoshop and a wacom tablet.

      1. Binky Avatar

        It’s amazing what you young wippersnappers can do with computers these days.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          Mr computer generated cartoon is telling me about computers.

        2. George Avatar

          What’s a computer? I’m still trying to get the hang of these calculators.

          1. Bearman Avatar

            Get a calculator watch…they are all the rage.

          2. Binky Avatar

            You mean my slide ruler watch is outdated?

          3. Bearman Avatar

            No…its a classic. I think they might buy it on Pawn Stars.

      2. Friggin Loon Avatar

        Wacom tablet is code for Viagra, if anyone was wondering!

        1. Bearman Avatar

          Look ma’….no hands.

        2. Colleen Avatar

          Well then WTF am I supposed to do with my bamboo?

          1. Bearman Avatar

            It’s pretty much the same thing. I don’t have the fancy wacoms.

  5. nursemyra Avatar

    Excellent, Robin must be pretty damned pleased with that!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      He better be..haha. Actually I said I make no guarantees that the finished product will look anythign like you.

      1. robin Avatar

        Robin is damn happy with it – its even my Facebook profile pic right now 🙂

        1. Bearman Avatar

          You are biased. What do your friends say..haha

          1. robin Avatar

            Muchos Positive comments via my FB… folk like it 🙂

  6. Scott Oglesby Avatar

    That’s amazing that he does all of that philanthropic work, god bless him!

    I really have to start getting back into twitter, it’s been over a year.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Once you get the crap smell off you.

      1. Friggin Loon Avatar

        Oh was that what that stench was. Damn you Scotty you gotta stop “winning” and take a bath.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          You obviously missed his most recent post.

    2. robin Avatar

      thankee muchly, kind of you to say 🙂

  7. Nate Fakes Avatar

    Good caricature, Bearman!

    I’ve been off Twitter almost a year now. I still post things to it via Facebook (I think that’s still operational), but I find Twitter confusing, difficult and full of spam. It’s probably just user error, but that’s my excuse

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Yeah but it is harder to brag about Facebook when I only have 100 or so followers..haha

  8. writerdood Avatar

    Nice caricature. I can actually identify the dude!

    I’m still not tweeting. Ha ha ha (evil laugh). I’m resisting society! I don’t have a facebook account either. I’m the invisible man! Yes, my protest of social media continues. Resistors unite! Uh… I’m not sure how they should do that though. The difficult part about arranging for a movement to resist social media is organizing it.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Isn’t it a sad state of affairs that in order to have an anti-social media revolution, you have to get social.

  9. SpilledInkGuy Avatar

    Very cool, Bearman!
    I’d be proud of myself if I could count to 1,000! (I could use a few extra fingers and toes, I guess) 🙂

    1. Bearman Avatar

      You must have very big shoes.

  10. Tony McGurk Avatar

    I think you miscalculated as I was sure it was me at No:1000

    1. Bearman Avatar

      The good thing is that you are a good enough artist that you can draw yourself.

  11. Tony McGurk Avatar

    Oh Great cariaciture too. Very good likeness of Robin

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I hope he thought so.

    2. robin Avatar

      I thought it was pretty damn good Tony 🙂 Feel free to add your own interpretation of “Charity Robin” as I am now following you too 😀

      This could be a whole new idea to promote my fundraising while helping out you guys at the same time… 😀

      1. Bearman Avatar

        Robin send me a 125×125 banner ad linking to your site, and I’ll add it to my links page.

        1. robin Avatar

          As soon as I get one made, I’ll send it to you 🙂

          Don’t know why I haven’t done this before … banners galore time this weekend 🙂

          RM

  12. Tony McGurk Avatar

    Bet you mistook me for a pornbot that is why I missed out…

    1. Bearman Avatar

      That’s what they all say.

    2. George Avatar

      You’ll always be my favorite porn-bot, Tony! I’ll go look at your pictures soon, I promise. 😀

  13. lisleman Avatar

    Congrats to Robin
    If I ever join twitter which I doubt, I’ll follow you. Do you follow many people?

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Only about 800…amazingly I can weed out the noise to get to see the important stuff.

  14. MJ Avatar

    WOW! Awesome caricature. Highly impressed, should I just throw all my pencils away?

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Yes…and get a wacom tablet.

      1. Bo Lumpkim Avatar

        I left my wacom pen at home this weekend and I am lost with out it. I bought some pencils but I can’t get them to work on the pad.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          Don’t lose it. Those things are expensive.

      2. lisleman Avatar

        I had one those once, many years ago. A small one that I recall paying about $125 for it. I got it because it was a cool gadget. Hey have you tried xtranormal yet? No drawing just script writing and directing. I try one and would love to get a referral for more points.

  15. Jason Avatar

    Congratulations! I love seeing the good go back and forth, very positive stuff!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Thanks Jason!

  16. Bo Lumpkin Avatar

    Great job Bearman. I just followed you too early but that’s okay. You already drew me in an unflattering situation. (Which BTW I find useful at times.)

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I think that was one of my best caricatures yet.

      1. Binky Avatar

        And most profitable.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          What? You can earn money doing this crap?

  17. bluntdelvery Avatar

    aw, i love actual breathing individuals.

    great cartoon… but at first i thought it said the “Great Osmond Hospital..” and that just couldn’t have been something that I support

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I wouldn’t doubt that there is one

  18. Arts Web Show Avatar

    You know people from the Uk. awesome.
    I’m from the UK.
    .
    I know, look i had a long day. lol

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Duncan and all the madhatters are from there.. As well as some others who lurk more than comment

      1. Bearman Avatar

        Oh and Dave too

  19. Colleen Avatar

    Hey bearman, if I had unfollowed you, then waited a bit, then re-followed you would you have done me from a photo of me before I got horribly disfigured? And while you’re at it, when are you gonna do you?

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Don’t you see my avatar? That IS me!!!

  20. Frank M Hansen Avatar

    Very cool. A great follower and a great contest.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I’ll be looking for you to do the same.

  21. Make Money Online Avatar

    Congrats!!! I also aimed for 1000 twitters followers and i also achieved that!

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