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Jason Calacanis's Twitterholic ban proves not to be a joke

By Jackson West, 12:00 AM on Thu Apr 3 2008, 1,092 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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Once the top bulldog, Jason Calacanis had climbed back to No. 2 on Twitterholic, outranked only by Barack Obama — only to be struck from the ranks. Twitterholic is a favored popularity index among The 250 and their many spam-loving followers. The reason for the booting? An April Fools' stunt which was never reversed, putting Robert Scoble back in second, and first in the key chubby, aging white-man demo — and giving us one more reason to hate April Fools' Day.

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Commenter of the day: innonate
"You're a dick, Owen. And you run fake stories every day anyway." — Double-crossed April Fools entrepreneur Nate Westheimer demonstrates his Valley CEO potential.

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