Justine was featured in Pittsburgh Magazine. This is a wonderful article from Justine’s home town with quotes from friends and teachers she had. There is even a copy of iJustine’s Senior Picture which of course included a Mac.
One of the biggest surprises at this Sunday’s Video Music Awards will surround the just-announced “Twitter correspondent” iJustine, the Internet celebrity who has made a name for herself as a video blogger and Twitter aficionado. In her latest dispatch, she describes the details of her role, which will surround her observing tweets about the show and real time responses from stars on the red carpet about arrivals and fashion. As she explains in her video blog, she’ll be tracking tweets that are tagged “#vma” and hosting a number of Twitter-based segments during the official preshow, which kicks off at 8 o’clock on Sunday night live from outside Radio City Music Hall. So the Twitter savvy should point their messages @ijustine as well as @mtvnews to comment about the most hotly-anticipated performances, the craziest outfits and the favorites to win the coveted Moonmen. Just tag all VMA-related tweets “#vma” or “#ijvma” to get in on iJustine’s action!
The official Twitter correspondent (also known as Justine Ezarik) joins the preshow team that also includes “New Moon” star Ashley Greene, who will serve as the official fashion correspondent for the show (a role filled by Taylor Swift at last year’s VMAs). It all starts Sunday at 8 o’clock and will feature arrivals and interviews from all the night’s biggest stars.
Justine won’t just be reading off your tweets, she’ll be analyzing trends that arise on Twitter as the celebrities make their way onto the carpet. “Basically, I’m going to be making sense of all of the tweets that are coming in about the VMAs. I’m going to be the visualizer of it,” she told MTV News. “It’s going to be pulling in hash tags and pulling in different data about celebs and what everyone is saying, so I’m gonna kind of explain to people what the Twitter reaction is.”
iJustine, for those who aren’t familiar with her, is an Internet comedienne who has more than 620,000 Twitter followers. And as a sort of social-networking expert, she has some idea of what people will probably be talking about on Sunday. “It’s like a whole different crowd on Twitter, so I’m really not sure who is going to be the most talked about,” she said. “I’m sure whatever Britney Spears does [if she comes to the show] is going to be probably a huge Twitter effect, so I’m definitely looking forward to see what people are saying about her. And of course, everyone loves Taylor Swift as well. Those would be my two picks.”
Just finished watch the video of iJustine during her photoshoot with the Bui Brothers. This is my favorite photoshoot of Justine yet. Watch the behind the scenes video and check out the pics. You can go to the Bui Brothers Flickr page for all of them.
Justine does A LOT of traveling. Coast to coast adventures for social media events and other fun stuff, Justine has been all over. When she’s not being questioned by airport security for her live streaming video, Justine is usually putting together another snippet for her fans. This video can be found on iJustine’s other YouTube channel but was made for Howcast, the “How To…” video site and explains some essential travel tips. Mostly leaning towards Jet Blue.
iJustine is still on vacation with the family but being the only resident celebrity, she had to perform for the people. After sending out a quick Tweet that she was in town and going to do some karaoke a crowd of people swarmed to the beach.
Many of the people had never heard of Justine before but saw the crowd of people moving like a parade down the towns main st and decided to follow.
One lady walking her dog said “I don’t know where I’m going but I hear I can’t miss this event. This iJustine sounds very entertaining!”
In a town of about 450 people total, it appeared as if everyone and their friends arrived for the show. iJustine single handedly boosted the towns economy just by showing up for vacation.
iJustine stood on the beach and sang some of the crowd favorites.
She closed out the show after a quick wardrobe change and introduced a new track to the growing list of iJustine originals ‘Pirate Treats‘
A fan sent this to iJustine’s Twitter and I had to share. Looks like Justine ‘the web Queen’ has her own TV show on cable. Has anyone had a chance to watch it?
Courtesy of @hersh01
Justine is on her annual family vacation and enjoying the beach, canoeing and of course taking lots of pictures and video. One of the ways iJustine keeps the fans updated on the trip is to post numerous pictures on Flickr. It’s amazing to watch the comments come flooding in and see what pictures are the most popular. I don’t know what this has to say about the iJustine fan base but here are the most popular pictures so far of iJustine’s family vacation.
is #1 with over 2700 views
Comes in at #2 with a meager 2,200. I bet it’s such a popular picture because the water is so blue.
Justine was mentioned in a recent 360 Digital Influence article written by Christine Ngo.I can’t believe it’s already been a year sonce Intel launched this advisory board. Seems like only a couple months ago.
A year ago this month, Intel (an Ogilvy PR client) launched the Intel Insiders, a social media advisory board of 10 highly engaged, influential thought leaders in technology and new media.
This diverse group of prolific content creators and tech-setters includes:
-Brian Solis of Bub.blicio.us and PR 2.0
-Cathy Brooks of Other Than That
-Sarah Austin of Pop17
-Justine Ezarik, iJustine
-JD Lasica, author of Darknet and publisher of SocialMedia.biz
-Adriana Gascoigne of Girls in Tech
-Irina Slutsky of Geek Entertainment TV
-Frank Gruber of Somewhat Frank
-Tom Foremski of Silicon Valley Watcher
-Christian Perry of SF Beta and Snap Summit
Justine Ezarik might not be a household name, but the 25-year-old has a cable TV-size audience. The only difference: Ezarik’s audience is on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.
Thanks to Google, she’s also now part of Carl’s Jr.’s effort rolling out this week to sell the Portobello Mushroom Six-Dollar Burger to young men. The search-engine giant drafted Ezarik and eight other popular YouTube creators to participate in an ad campaign for the fast-food chain on the video-sharing site. They were commissioned to put their own spin on the CKE Restaurants brand’s infamous Paris Hilton-eating-a-burger commercial by showing how they would ear theirs.
Justine was part of the special event in San Francisco to fly the first Virgin America plane into Orange County. Beside having a good time she was able to bump elbows again with M.C. Hammer and Richard Branson. The news of the flight was big enough for Virgin Airlines in an industry that seems to be in a tailspin with the economy.
iJustine had several photos taken during the event and one was used by the Los Angeles Times in an article they published about WiFi on planes.
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