When the Malheur Refuge takeover started in 2016, I only had about 400 followers on Twitter. One of my Tweets went viral, ended up on Stephen Colbert's show, and I gained 10,000 followers in about 24 hours. Good times.
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I gained another large group of followers when one of my all-time favorite writers pointed people in my direction.
@jjmacnab Wow... Gibson. :)
@sfleetucker I know, right?
@jjmacnab You getting a neural jack?
@jjmacnab Whoa. Awesome.
@jjmacnab I have yet to be thanked for the items sent. ( bachelorette party favors)
True story, I met Gibson at a book reading at Black Oak Books in Berkeley in the mid 1980s.
I got so tongue-tied, I couldn't hold a conversation, which if you know me, is not a thing.