MTV select their first ever Twitter Jockey - Gabi Gregg
August 10th, 2010 - 9:04 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, Aug 10 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Gabi Gregg has been crowned the Twitter Jockey (TJ). Gregg was given the title last night after several months of searching.
The show which was dubbed, Follow Me: The Search for the First MTV TJ. MTV had $100,000 prize money for the winner and Gregg will take her position next week. MTV was searching for a jockey on the popular social networking and micro blogging site Twitter.
Gregg won the show after she got the popular votes from fans who watched the show live. This is the first ever show of its kind and MTV and Twitter will surely continue the show.
Gabi Gregg, who is a plus size fashion blogger tweets with the handle @gabifresh and she will now use @mtvti. Gregg belongs to Detroit. After the announcement last night, Gregg is going to speak to the media about her new job on Twitter. She has also posted several pictures on TwitPic. She has invited her fans and followers to check out her photos about her new experience as TJ on the Social Networking site.
Gregg will pick up her official title as TJ next week and she will be moving to New York to start her new role.
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