Those of you who said you wished you were in LA to see the Peter Facinelli Twitter bet, now have your wish grants. Rob DeFranco’s site (the guy doing the bikini strut) has a Live feed for teh event which begins at 4:00pm Pacific time.
Bikini Day Is Here!
June 30, 2009
That’s right, today is June 30th and it’s the day Rob DeFranco (Peter Facinelli’s IPhone app designer and good buddy) takes the bikini strut down Hollywood Blvd. because he lost a bet with Peter Facinelli. Peter and Rob have been making some videos regarding the…er…preparations (think 40-Year-Old Virgin). Larry Carroll mentioned two days ago at Summer School in Forks that MTV would be there to cover the event today. In the meantime, let the preparations videos entertain you. we have to say Rob is being an awfully good sport about losing the bet.
Another important thing to remember is that this whole episode has been turned into an event to benefit the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. How cool is that?
Peter Facinelli: Riddle Me This
June 25, 2009
Peter Facinelli has been keeping his Twitter followers entertained by putting up riddles every week or so. Some are cheesy, but it’s a lot of fun guessing.
Peter also spoke about what’s going on with the infamous bet and the back of his chair. It seems he did hit the margin of users needed (the numbers were all over the place) but Twitter recently put on some type of controls where only so may people could follow your account in a short time as a spam prevention. So long story short, even though it only looks like Peter has roughly 300,000 (at this writing) users, he actually did hit the 500,000 mark.
So, Rob (Peter’s IPhone app designer, not Pattinson) will be doing the bikini shuffle on June 30th. Peter has promised to take photos.
To thank his fans for their support, Peter is going to give his Twilight chair seat back to on of his followers on Twitter. Additionally, Rob (who is really being an incredibly good sport in all of this) is giving away several free Peter Facinelli IPhone apps.
Peter is going to the Affliction clothing store to pick out Rob’s bikini and Affliction has agreed to donate $10,000 to the Christopher Reeve Foundation in honor of Peter’s followers. Additionally, Peter will be doing a signing at Affliction on TUESDAY JUNE 30th 4-7 pm. Affliction-Los Angeles Store 7811 Melrose Avenue Los Angeles. He’ll be announcing who wins his chairback and the IPhone apps there. The winners do not need to be present to win. Information on how to enter all contests will be posted here (the site is currently down, we’re sure that they will shortly have it fixed.)
Twilight Examiner Interviews Peter Facinelli
June 24, 2009
The Twilight Examiner had a chance to talk to Peter Facinelli about New Moon, Nurse Jackie, and his hopes for Eclipse:
“Having just wrapped The Twilight Saga: New Moon with director Chris Weitz, Facinelli is to be back on the Twilight set once again – this time with David Slade for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. I asked Facinelli whether he was surprised at all that his work in Twilight has potentially led to a four-part film series. Said he, “Well, when we first shot it, you know, I think no one really knew that it was going to be this big. I think we were just hoping to satisfy the fans of the books, and we knew there was this underground following. Again, no one really knew it was going to snowball into this huge thing… kind of like my Twitter bet… No one knew it was going to snowball into that huge thing either.”
You can get the entire interview on the Examiner.
Peter Facinelli Ups the Ante
June 17, 2009
If this doesn’t get him 500,000 followers nothing will. Watch the video and Peter will explain it all to you.
Peter Facinelli Has EXTRA on His Side
June 16, 2009
So far Peter Facinelli has gotten Ryan Seacrest, Demi Moore, and Chelsea Handler to help him win his bet and retain his Twilight chair in his quest to get 500,000 Twitter followers by June 19th. Now he has EXTRA on his side.
We are also noticing that a lot of the fake Twitters are now self-deleting or being suspended. We suspect that it has to do with the new Twitter verification service.
Twitter Showdown Continues
June 13, 2009
OK, here’s the story. Peter Facinelli below has some video encouragement for all of you who haven’t followed him on Twitter yet. Peter needs 500,000 followers by June 19th or he loses his Twilight chair.
Now Gil Birmingham is rising to the challenge, Gil’s latest Tweet “Okay you twisted my arm. If you guys get me to 100,000 fans by June 19, I’ll post a photo of me in a Speedo…any takers?”
Now, if you if you don’t yet have a twitter, here’s why you want one.
1. It’s more fun than an RSS feed. You can keep up with all the new posts on your favorite sites and stars at just a glance and then decide which stories you want to click on.
2. The Lexicon frequently posts heads up to Twitter before ever writing a blog post.
3. The Lex does Tweet some exclusive content. For example this Sunday we will be tweeting our 100 Monkeys Experience and we will be Tweeting our Comic Con experience.
So go to Twitter.com and make an account and follow The Lexicon, Peter, Gil and whoever else you want!
Peter Facinelli’s Twitter Bet
June 12, 2009
Peter Facinelli bet Rob DeFranco, the guy who made his Twitter skin and IPhone app, that he could get 500,000 people following him on Twitter by June 19th. If Peter loses this bet Rob gets to win Peter’s chair from Twilight.
On the other hand if Peter wins, Rob has to walk down Hollywood Blvd in a bikini singing all the single ladies with a sign that says “Twitter me”. Peter has promised to take video. No idea what LAPD will do. For the sake of Peter keeping his chair, and the good citizens of LA not burning their retinas on Rob walking semi-naked down Hollywood Blvd. please follow Peter on Twitter…then again it’s Hollywood Blvd., maybe he’ll just blend in.
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