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At Social Media Marketing Las Vegas Peter VanRynsdam did a talk on "How NOT to go Viral".
I heard a few interesting stories of viral youtube videos that turned out
American babysitter Ashley Kerekes who unknowingly chose the twitter username @theashes has been hit for six after being inundated with messages from cricket fans following the First Ashes Cricket Test