I’m glad he’s on our team!

Why don’t we approach two 49ers players on Twitter – guys like Dixon with a slightly lower profile rather than Willis or Spikes who already have loads of followers – and suggest a competition where they battle to attract the most amount of followers in a set period.

So the idea would work like this:

- NinersNation tweets, say, Dixon and RJF (think he’s on Twitter?) and suggests a competition
- If they are interested, we set a period of time, say 10am to 2pm Pacific on a Friday
- The gun bangs for the start of the race, and Dixon and Ricky have four hours to get as m,any followers as they can
- They get a bunch of publicity and we get the entertainment of sitting back and watching two guys do whatever they can to attract followers
- They are allowed to do whatever they want – they can tweet really famous folks to ask them for re-tweets, they can do radio interviews, whatever they like
- NinersNation gets a little bit of free publicity and credit for coming up with the idea but all other 49ers community sites will have the entertainment factor too of sitting back and watching the whole thing unfold.

You’d need two players with approximately similar numbers to start with, and it would need to be two players with lower profiles so there’s a motivation there, and you’d need them to be fun types who would get into the spirit of it and do fun stuff like begging Barack Obama for a re-tweet or something like that.

NinersNation could have an open thread to watch it unfold and any others Niners website could do also.

he’s a crazy dude, he’s also becoming one of my favorites on the team