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When Kris Sanchez joined Twitter in 2009, he didn't expect much to come of it.

"I really started my Twitter account because I wanted to follow Britney Spears," Sanchez told Business Insider. "I'm a huge fan."

He found he didn't have much to tweet about in his daily life, so he started sharing random facts he found while procrastinating on the internet.

He obviously had a knack for it.

"By 2011, I had decided to start tweeting 24/7. So that's a fact every 15 minutes," he said.

And thus, UberFacts was born.

In 2012, he hit 200,000 followers, including some big names, like Paris Hilton and Khloe Kardashian. Not much later, an ad network reached out.

"They helped me see how I could actually make money off of UberFacts, by building galleries and tweeting links," Sanchez said. "I was getting checks of $600 or $800 a week, and I couldn't believe it."

Today, Sanchez's Twitter account has an astounding 9.4 million followers. The Facebook page has more than 1.27 million likes, and the Instagram account has more than 468,000 followers.

He makes about $500,000 a year on UberFacts.

He recently launched an UberFacts app, which is projected to eventually bring in an additional $60,000 a week. The app allows users to like and comment on facts and share them with their friends.

Sanchez also recently hired two people to help him look up facts and schedule tweets for the day. They generally tweet between two and four facts from the account each hour.

"That’s what we decided works so that people who aren’t following that many accounts aren’t flooded with UberFacts," he said.

Sanchez's facts tend to be just unbelievable enough to warrant a share.

Last year BuzzFeed published a piece criticizing Sanchez for tweeting questionable or incorrect facts.

But Sanchez defends his strategy for verifying the facts he tweets.

"We make sure that we can find multiple sources for each fact," he said. "Sometimes we make mistakes. Sometimes other sites make mistakes, or one site says something's true and the other says it's not. Having a team helps with that."

Sanchez tweets full time, but he hopes to one day get into TV production or write a book. For now, he's working on expanding the brand's reach.

"I never expected it would be my full-time job," he said. "I’ve always enjoyed entertaining people. I’m hoping that the brand brings a different kind of value to the Internet. If these tweets can make people think, I think it does that."

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In honor of Valentine's Day, we at The Dieline have gathered our Top 10 inspirational chocolate packaging designs that would be perfect for that special someone this Saturday. 

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FOR THE PROM QUEEN

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FOR THE FINE DINER

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FOR THE SOPHISTICATED PALETTE

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FOR THE SOUTHERN BELLE

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FOR THE FASHIONISTA

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FOR THE INDICISIVE 

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FOR THE HEALTHNUT

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FOR THE MISCHEVIOUS 

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FOR THE SHOPAHOLIC

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FOR THE GOURMET GOBBLER

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Thanks for the booty show. I think I’m more confused than disgusted though. Like how is everything else so plump and that ass is concave? I’m perplexed.

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Wait a minute, what? Speaking in Iowa today, Biden gave a shout out to his “old butt buddy.”

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I don’t watch “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.” In fact, I don’t watch any late-night television. Stewart’s announcement that he’ll leave “The Daily Show” after 16 years is not, for me personally, a big deal. So I felt a little left out as the media churned out ode after ode to Stewart.

But — I’m sorry to be the skunk at the garden party — “The Daily Show” always had limited appeal; it just happens that the appeal included the New York media elite.

Stewart largely appeals to wealthy and well-educated liberals — a small slice of the overall news audience.

• According to a 2012 Pew Research Center study, 14 percent of Stewart’s audience self-identified as conservative and 43 percent as liberal. Pew found that, overall, the news audience was 35 percent conservative and 22 percent liberal. In fact, “The Daily Show,” The New York Times and The New Yorker were the only media outlets outside of MSNBC for which a plurality of the audience self-identified as liberal.
• Pew also found that just 25 percent of all news consumers had at least a college degree, but “The Daily Show” was the only television news show for which more than 40 percent of the viewers had at least a college education. Most readers of The Times and The New Yorker also had one.
• About 40 percent of the audiences of all three — “The Daily Show,” The Times and The New Yorker — made more than $75,000 a year, according to Pew, compared with 26 percent of all news consumers.

Stewart, simply put, has been speaking to only a small group of people. You can see this in his television ratings. While it may shock some, the vast majority of Americans didn’t watch Stewart. Indeed, the vast majority of late-night viewers didn’t watch him. Last month, “The Daily Show” pulled in about 1.15 to 1.3 million viewers daily. Even if you include the roughly 250,000 viewers that, on average, watch “The Daily Show” on its website, Stewart’s audience is, at best, an average of about 1.5 million. According to Nielsen NNTV data, “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and Jimmy Fallon’s “The Tonight Show” were seen by an average of 2.7 and 3.7 million people, respectively, in the final quarter of 2014.

Of course, Stewart has the tougher game of playing on cable. That, however, cannot fully explain why Stewart’s ratings have been down over the past few years.

Stewart’s ratings are somewhat dependent on the political cycle. His viewership tends to peak during big elections. If you compare Stewart’s ratings in the fourth quarter of 2014 (a little over a year before the 2016 Iowa caucus) to the fourth quarter in 2010 (a little over a year before the 2012 Iowa caucus), his viewership is down about 15 percent. That’s the same decline he had from the fourth quarter of 2013 to the fourth quarter of 2014.

Could this just be because television ratings are down generally? Maybe, but during the past year, the “Jimmy Kimmel Live” audience is up 4 percent.

But what about with younger viewers for whom Stewart is supposedly the voice of a generation? He’s been bleeding younger viewers at a 20 percent rate since the fourth quarter of 2010, when Stewart clocked in with 860,000 18- to 49-year-olds.

Part of the drop in the number of younger people watching Stewart over the past year is likely because of Fallon’s takeover of “The Tonight Show ” in 2014, though Kimmel was stable year-to-year.

That’s not to say that the idea of Stewart’s youth appeal is way off the mark. The majority (55 percent) of his audience in the fourth quarter of 2014 was in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic, while just about a third of Fallon’s and Kimmel’s were. Stewart, though, isn’t as cool as Conan O’Brien. (Note: I have a slight bias toward O’Brien as he spoke at my college graduation.) O’Brien, who has his own problems with overall viewership, has increasingly become reliant on the 18- to 49-year-old demographic; 59 percent of his viewers in the fourth quarter of 2014 came from this prized demographic.

Stewart’s audience has also aged with him. The median age of “Daily Show” viewers rose from 35 in 2004 to 40.5 in 2014.

Now, there are things that go into influence beyond ratings. “The Daily Show” has a powerful Facebook and Twitter presence. Then again, an online weather forum that I used to moderate somehow has more than 100,000 followers on Facebook, too.

Perhaps more importantly, Stewart can also claim that the media watches him. That’s undeniably true, based on the press’s reaction over the past 48 hours. That’s the type of influence that’s difficult to buy. But the media loving Stewart has also led to an overhyping of Stewart’s reach.

The developer of Super Stardust and Resogun is working with arcade design legend Eugene Jarvis, designer of Defender, Robotron: 2084 and Smash TV, on a new game. Resogun lead Harry Krueger announced the developer's collaboration with Jarvis at an event in Helsinki, Finland, where Housemarque is headquartered.

Housemarque didn't provide too many details on the game, other than to say it's brand new. The studio's past games have drawn influence from Jarvis' classic arcade titles, notably Robotron and Defender.

"When I saw Resogun I couldn't believe how these Housemarque guys took Defender to a new level," Jarvis said in a statement posted to Housemarque's blog. "I wondered... what would happen if we teamed up? Mash up old school arcade...

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Hey, Kindle Fire owners, or any of the few people who own a Fire Phone: Amazon is giving away 37 premium apps for free.

One of the apps — Travel Interpreter — would ordinarily cost $9.99 by itself.

If you purchased all the apps at their regular prices, you'd be dishing out $140 total, according to BGR's math.

The selection covers a wide variety of topics, including games, exercise apps, travel resources, expense management, and more. 

You can check out the whole bundle here.

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Simon’s Cat has a Valentine’s Day present for his one true love. But, as is often the case with cats- even animated ones- it doesn’t quite go according to (burp) plan…

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Yeah, this cat knows good and well what “no” means. He just doesn’t care. Don’t you know that cats cannot fight the compulsion to knock things off tables? (via Neatorama)

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Video Rental Store | Columbus, OH, USA

(It is back when major video rental chains are still in business. We have a regular known shoplifter hit us and neighboring stores recently, and he walks in to my store. It is a Saturday night, and we are slammed, so before I can go and watch him, he is already trying to go out our entrance door, which lacks sensors.)

Me: “Sir, you need to go out the exit. That’s an entrance-only.”

Shoplifter: “I just have to run to my car and get my wallet…”

Me: “Okay, but you need—”

(And with that, he is gone out the door. Luckily, I’m not the only manager on tonight.)

Me: *to coworker* “I’m gonna take a smoke break real fast.”

(I proceed to walk out to the parking lot, which is huge because it is in a shopping center. I see the man and start following him.)

Me: “Man, it is a nice night tonight, don’t you think?”

(He doesn’t respond, but I continue to try and chat while following him. Suddenly he starts jogging, and I follow. He then starts throwing carts in my way as I run behind him. After another few minutes, he stops, turns around, and pulls back his fist! I am not a muscular or tall guy, and I can only react instinctively, which is to shrug my shoulders, look at him, and say:)

Me: “Really?”

Shoplifter: *taken aback* “Well, what do we do now?”

Me: “Well, if you drop all the stuff you have on you, I’ll be too busy picking it up to even see where you go…”

(By this point, his getaway car was honking and yelling obscenities. After about thirty seconds, he opened up his jacket and dropped around $400 worth of pre-rented games. True to my word, I took my time getting them as he took off. Later, I get scolded by my manager for going after them and potentially getting hurt, but she laughed about how my reaction was enough to shock the shoplifter out of his aggressive state. Needless to say, he never came back after that.)

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Earlier this week we wrote about the Phantom One, a small form factor PC on Kickstarter that's comparable in size to a six pack of Corona beer (or pretty much any brand of suds using 12-ounce bottles). There's also a bamboo option, which adds another unique selling point -- to our knowledge, there isn't another desktop made of bamboo. There hasn't been much action on the Kickstarter page, presumably because the systems are cost prohibitive, so One Technology has gone and dropped the price.

Originally the asking price was $1,900 for the black acrylic and $1,950 for the bamboo model. As we noted, those prices seemed a bit stiff. After receiving similar feedback from others, One Technology has lowered the prices to $1,650 for the black acrylic and $1,700 for the bamboo version, chopping $250 off each model.

My colleagues are in the process of obtaining one of these machines for review and so we'll collectively reserve judgement until then, but in the meantime, I have to admit that these little desktops are suddenly compelling. The price is for the entire system, not just the desktop, and as a refresher, they come configured with an Intel Core i7 4790K CPU, Asus Z97i-Plus mini ITX motherboard with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, 16GB of RAM, 128GB SSD, 1TB HDD, GeForce GTX 970 graphics card, 450W PSU, and Windows 7 64-bit.

I went back to Newegg and priced the components a second time and noticed that I forgot to include a power supply last time around. Leaving off both the PSU and case, I again came to about $1,200 worth of hardware -- slightly north or south depending on specific component selection.

Taking that into consideration, the price disparity before factoring in a case and PSU is $450 to $500. To keep the math neat, let's subtract $50 for the PSU, leaving a price difference of $400 (black acrylic) or $450 (bamboo).

So yes, you can build a comparable system cheaper, but considering you get what's supposed to be a high end case (especially the bamboo option) and labor, what was once cost prohibitive is suddenly a lot more compelling. Also, keep in mind these are discounted Kickstarter prices -- retail pricing will be higher.

If that changes things, you can find the Phantom One's Kickstarter page here.

Update

Some of you have been wondering if One Technology would considering selling their unique cases by themselves, so I brought the question to them. Here's what one of the team members told me:

"Depending on the outcome we may be able to just sell the case itself. But we believe it will not be successful as a case due it's design and limitations placed on builders. Each case takes over 3 hours on a precision laser cutter and CNC mill to make and this limits us to a very low number we can produce per month. There is a unique $100 PCI-E riser ribbon that greatly inflates the cost. Our case doesn't offer the flexibility and user friendly design that we would like to offer as just a case.

However, since we only use standard off the shelf components (minus pci-e riser), the possibility is there although it would be very difficult for the user. We accepted this as a sacrifice in order make our case twice as small as competitors (comparison chart below) and give it a unique footprint.

We do have a design for possible mass production for the case only, but it would still need a large overhaul and a lot more funding and manufacturer partnerships (ie. NCase M1 $150k fd + manufacturing partnership with Lian-Li prior to launch). Upgrading individual components are possible though, since the cables are already there and fitted, it is a little more accessible."

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