Josh Ostrovsky, also known as “The Fat Jewish” or the “Fat Jew,” is making a new name for himself as an Instagram sensation. What started as an outlet to simply share funny memes and pictures has turned into a full-time job for Ostrovsky.
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A social media phenomenon tells the full story of instant web celebrity. 
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When John Travolta called Idina Menzel "Adele Dazeem" at the Oscars, he created a new standard for superstardom: You're no one until you've had your name mangled by a confused, squinting John Travolta. What's your Travoltified name? Find out with this handy widget!
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Peter Shih is a young tech founder "forced" to make his millions in San Francisco. Proving San Franciscans are the savviest users of Twitter, when Shih's complaints about his new city hit the interwebs, the hashtags #petershih and #petershihfacts exploded. And no one is being kind. Proving that San Francisco can also get "old school" on you, too, flyers are being posted around the city with Shih's photo and the message, "Peter Shih: Move Back to NYC".
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As social media platforms value ever-smaller snippets, Internet fame is shrinking from micro to nano.
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There's much online chatter this week about Monica Lewinsky, who 16 years ago was identified as "that woman" who gave President Bill Clinton a blow job. (There, we've sad it.) Ms. Lewinsky, a former White House intern is now 40 years old, and she's written a piece for Vanity Fair (which will hit the interwebs next week). In said piece, Lewinsky identifies herself as perhaps the first victim of Internet (or cyber-) bullying. And she may be right. The scandal, which got pretty heavy nonstop circulation back in the Web 1.0 day, is ripe for reexamination in how it would play out in our current social media-frenzied Web 2.0 world. Here's a look at the stories that were making headlines in 1998.
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The person posting as @GSElevator on Twitter, thought to be a Goldman Sachs employee, is actually a 34-year-old former bond trader in Texas. The Twitter account could have alternatively been called "Sh*t Wall Street Bankers Say", with tweets like “I never give money to homeless people. I can’t reward failure in good conscience,” and “Groupon…Food stamps for the middle class," attracting more than 600,000 followers before its cover was blown.
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Santiago Swallow may be one of the most famous people no one has heard of. His eyes fume from his Twitter profile: he is Hollywood-handsome. Next to his name is one of social media’s most prized possessions, Twitter’s blue “verified account” checkmark. Beneath it are numbers to make many in the online world jealous: Santiago Swallow has tens of thousands of followers. The tweets Swallow sends them are cryptic nuggets of wisdom that unroll like scrolls from digital fortune cookies: “Before you lose weight, find hope,” says one. Another: “To write is to live endlessly.” And, of course, he isn't real. But rather the figment of one very creative writer's imagination - and $68, which is all it took to get Santiago Swallow up and running.
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