25-year-old factory worker Jerome Billingham, who packs laundry for a living is now earning £5,000 from social media work, after Kim Kardashian replied to his tweet.
His 2013 tweet reads: “Do you notice your fans? I love you loads! #hotlove.” “Love you too,” Kim replied and Jerome’s followers skyrocketed from 200 to 20,000 in a week. Now with over half a million followers on his two Twitter accounts, with his main account getting six million views a month, Clothing companies now send him free clothes at his family home in Louth, Lincolnshire, and dozens of other businesses send him free samples while begging him to promote their goods.
He now makes an estimated £5,000 a year tweeting about high street companies, such as Primark. He also does promotional work for E4.
Jerome said:
“I was doing a 6 a.m. shift at my work in a factory and I’d seen she’d tweeted something, I can’t even remember what she tweeted now, but I just
He said: “I have had so many people reach out and offer sponsorship. Lad Bible and Boohooman wanted me to work for them. I did campaigns for E4’s Tattoo Fixers, Primark’s Christmas range, they’d sent me stuff and pay me almost £100 a tweet. I do that much on Twitter now I can barely keep up with it all.”
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