Justin Bieber just asked his Twitter followers to follow Matt Lauer, the host of NBC's The Today Show. The result? Lauer has gotten more than 40,000 followers in 15 minutes, adding approximately 2,000 followers per minute.
Lauer only follows one user and has posted only three tweets, the first one of which he tweeted some half an hour ago.
Since Bieber has more than 23 million followers, it's no wonder that one tweet from him can instantly launch any other user into Twitter stardom.
Everyone follow my man @mlauer— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) June 15, 2012
Still, for all those users struggling to reach five digits, Lauer's meteoric rise has to be an interesting sight. At this pace, Lauer will have more than 100,000 followers in less than an hour.