Former heavyweight champ Riddick Bowe will tweet anything for $20

Former heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe is very active on Twitter and he decided to monetize his over 451,000 followers by offering to tweet anything his followers want provided they pay him $20.

Former heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe is very active on Twitter and he decided to monetize his over 451,000 followers by offering to tweet anything his followers want, provided they pay him $20.

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I will tweet anything to anyone just paypal me $20 bowe@riddickbowe.com. Thats whats up. Bowe

— Riddick Bowe (@riddickbowe) April 14, 2015

A surprising number of people have taken the former champ up on his offer and the non-advertising tweets are pretty entertaining.

Kenny Randell from Farmingdale once beat me up with my own shoes! Thats whats up. Bowe

— Riddick Bowe (@riddickbowe) April 14, 2015

Happy belated Birthday to my man James Smith from Ellicott City! COOLEST CATS IN THE CITY. Thats whats up. Bowe

— Riddick Bowe (@riddickbowe) April 14, 2015

Bowe explained that he was performing a public service while also making himself some cash on the side.

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YOU GOTTA SUPPORT YOUR BOWELIEVER FAMILY RT THESE TWEET ALL THESE PEOPLE JUST TRYINA MAKE IT IN DIS WORLD. BOWE

— Riddick Bowe (@riddickbowe) April 14, 2015

WHAT YALL DONT UNDERSTAND IS THESE TWITTER PEOPLE DONT HAVE MANY FOLLOWERS SO HOW THEY SUPPOSED TO GET THEM NAME OUT THERE? IM HELPING THEM.

— Riddick Bowe (@riddickbowe) April 14, 2015

I WANT TO PROMOTE ALL YOUR BUSINESS AND TWEET ALL YOUR THOUGHTS BECAUSE IM THE PEOPLES CHAMP AND WE ALL EQUAL. JUST LOOKING OUT FOR YALL.

— Riddick Bowe (@riddickbowe) April 14, 2015

Bowe has tweeted over 200 times since beginning his offer, and while some seem to actually be from Bowe, the vast majority seem to be paid tweets, so the champ has been having a pretty good 24 hours.

- Brendan Maloy