This Guy's Getting $60K to Tweet About Wine

Winner will live in California, Tweet about wine

By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 22, 2009 8:41 AM CDT

(Newser) – Hardy Wallace recently lost his job—but he’ll soon be making $10,000 a month promoting Murphy-Goode winery on the Web, as the winner of the much-touted “Really Goode Job,” the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The Atlantan, who has a wine blog and has taken sommelier education courses, was first in line at the recruitment drive and says, “I was trying to get this job before there was this job.”

Wallace pitched himself as “goofy” and “entertaining,” he says, but serious about wine. His “lifestyle correspondent” position, which he won over 2,000 other applicants, begins Aug. 15 and lasts six months. The winery took some heat for promoting the job as it laid off up to 250 employees, as well as for snubbing fan favorite Martin Sargent in its list of 50 finalists.

Hardy Wallace, Murphy-Goode Winery's Wine Country Lifestyle Correspondent, was named over 2,000 applicants for wine dream job. (PRNewsFoto/Murphy-Goode Winery)

A Murphy-Goode Winery hat is shown. (©_e.t)

« Prev« Prev | Next »Next » Slideshow

To report an error on this story, notify our editors.

More Newser Stories

Rising Temperatures Threaten Vineyards in California

Climate change could take the 'wine' out of wine country in next 30 years

(NEWSER) - A new report warns that climate change could drastically shake up California’s wine country in the next 30 years. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that Napa Valley will eventually see 10 more days with grape-scorching temperatures of at least 95 degrees, the Los Angeles Times reports. If the weather pattern holds, that means trouble for Napa's Pinot Noir and Cabernet Sauvignon varietals, which don't do well in the heat. More»

Bill Cosby: I'm Not Dead

Twitter tries and fails to take down another celebrity

(NEWSER) - Bill Cosby is not dead, despite what you might have read on the Internet this afternoon. In fact, the 73-year-old comedy legend is alive, well, and making up words on Twitter, reports WPIX . Using a term he created after a similar false alarm in February, he tweeted today, "Again, I'm rebutalling rumors about my demise." He added , "Emotional friends have called about this misinformation. To the people behind the foolishness, I’m not sure you see how upsetting this is." To learn more about things the web has actually killed, click here . More»

John McCain Is Congress's Twitter King

Arizona senator's following 46 times greater than nearest rival

(NEWSER) - John McCain is leading the charge of tweeting lawmakers, with 46 times more Twitter followers—a cool 1.7 million —than his nearest competitor, Missouri Democrat Sen. Claire McCaskill. McCain’s popularity also illustrates Republicans’ quick embrace of the social network; twice as many of them tweet, compared to Democrats. “I love it; it’s so interactive,” McCain tells Bloomberg . More»

Twitter Closes In on 10B Tweets

Total posts up from 1B a year ago, 5B just 4 months ago

(NEWSER) - Twitter isn’t growing as explosively as it used to, but the volume of traffic on the microblogging site is still expanding fast enough that it should hit 10 billion total tweets in the coming days. That’s up from a billion about a year ago, and 5 billion just 4 months ago. Gauging the progress is quite simple, Mashable reports; just look at the number tag at the end of a tweet’s URL. A recent one read 9917803012, and the site produces about 50 million a day. More»

Conan Tops 400K Twitter Followers; Beard Has 144

Fans can also read thoughts of squirrel, monkey, Sharpie, freckles

(NEWSER) - Conan O’Brien’s breakout Twitter success—442,296 followers and counting—may be overshadowing the exploits of a coterie of related microbloggers. Conan’s beard (144 followers) has something to say, as do the squirrel who lives in his backyard (1,191), his freckles (14), and his Sharpie marker (10), the Los Angeles Times reports. “I’m famous!” tweets the beard. More»

NEWS FROM OUR PARTNERS

What is Newser?

Face it: there's too much news. At Newser, we choose the most thought-provoking and entertaining stories from hundreds of US and international sources and reduce them to a headline, picture, and two paragraphs. And we do it 24/7—you can come back morning, noon, night (and in between) for something new that matters. Read less, know more.

Learn more »

Partnering with: Slate

View Newser on the mobile website

This Guy's Getting $60K to Tweet About Wine

Winner will live in California, Tweet about wine

OTHER STORIES ON OUR RADAR

social networking • Internet • California • Web 2.0 • wine • blogging • Twitter • vineyard • what recession? • winery

MOST POPULAR STORIES

[ By Views ]

[ By Comments ]

More Newser Stories

Rising Temperatures Threaten Vineyards in California

Climate change could take the 'wine' out of wine country in next 30 years

Bill Cosby: I'm Not Dead

Twitter tries and fails to take down another celebrity

John McCain Is Congress's Twitter King

Arizona senator's following 46 times greater than nearest rival

Twitter Closes In on 10B Tweets

Total posts up from 1B a year ago, 5B just 4 months ago

Conan Tops 400K Twitter Followers; Beard Has 144

Fans can also read thoughts of squirrel, monkey, Sharpie, freckles

About Us

Site

Newser By Users

Community

Site Maps

Tools

More News

What is Newser?

This Guy's Getting $60K to Tweet About Wine

Winner will live in California, Tweet about wine

Bookmark & Share

OTHER STORIES ON OUR RADAR

social networking • Internet • California • Web 2.0 • wine • blogging • Twitter • vineyard • what recession? • winery

MOST POPULAR STORIES

[ By Views ]

[ By Comments ]

More Newser Stories

Rising Temperatures Threaten Vineyards in California

Climate change could take the 'wine' out of wine country in next 30 years

Bill Cosby: I'm Not Dead

Twitter tries and fails to take down another celebrity

John McCain Is Congress's Twitter King

Arizona senator's following 46 times greater than nearest rival

Twitter Closes In on 10B Tweets

Total posts up from 1B a year ago, 5B just 4 months ago

Conan Tops 400K Twitter Followers; Beard Has 144

Fans can also read thoughts of squirrel, monkey, Sharpie, freckles

About Us

Site

Newser By Users

Community

Site Maps

Tools

More News

What is Newser?