Kanye West who has over 450,000 twitter followers and was not following anyone himself, suddently picked one random person to follow last Friday (July 31, 2010). This lucky person is a 19 year old student from England named Steven Holmes, who is not thrilled with the sudden fame. At first, he says, it was fun, but he started getting many calls from reporters, including CNN, BBC and New York Magazine that wanted to interview him. He also been contacted by many individuals who are trying to get Kanye’s attention for business purposes, such sending him demo tapes of their music.

Steven Holmes, who goes by Twitter ID “ste_101″, wrote on his Twitter “”Holy *&$% bro thx for following!” Kanye replied: “You are the chosen one dun dun dun dun.”

The British student has seen his followers grow to over 5000 due to this sudden fame. However, he posted: “This has been completely surreal and I really have no desire for this attention i’m just a normal person. I won’t be speaking to anybody else, surprisingly not everyone wants to be famous. That’s all I’m saying – peace out x.”

Many Twitter users who are business oriented or run businesses are trying to grow their followers, mainly for marketing purposes. The other day I ran into a company that does social media marketing services and can help with building twitter followers. They are called iClimber. Check out their website at www.iclimber.com.

Easy Content Blueprints, a new site which was just launched, will be offering content writing tips and forum to share ideas for website owners. The site is designed to get down and dirty where the real business is by helping Internet business owners promote their websites in the one way that truly works, by building interesting, authoritative customer relevant content.

The site owners are hoping the site to be a resource site for the many small business owners who place all their financial hopes on building an Internet business but find themselves at a loss when it comes to promotion.

Plans for the site include a membership community which will provide powerful and practical resources for those who want to develop content of every type, including articles, blogs, twitter posts, squidoo lenses and more.

“Our site is not in the get rich quick business, our aim is make things easy and predictable by creating step by step blueprints and a wealth of valuable information” says the owner of the website.