Fox News Anchor Bret Baier Will Give You A Prize If You’re His 100,000th Twitter Follower

by Nando Di Fino | 11:47 am, February 14th, 2012

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Fox News anchor Bret Baier, as of Tuesday morning, had 99,220 Twitter followers, tantalizingly close to the magical 100,000 number. Instead of just rounding up and telling people he meets that he has 100,000 followers, Baier is taking the honest route, and giving fans a creative incentive to get signed up for his feed:

For those of you who are planning on waiting, like vultures, for Baier’s Twitter feed to hit 99,999 followers before deciding to “follow” him, we share the cautionary tale presented by the classic series Dennis The Menace; specifically, the episode entitled, “The Fifty-Thousandth Customer,” in which Mr. Wilson waits outside of Mr. Finch’s store, tracking customers, in order to win a five-minute shopping spree (which will be awarded to the 50,000th customer to walk through the door). Dennis, trying to be helpful (SPOILER ALERT), walks in to the store ahead of Mr. Wilson, thinking he is the 49,999th customer, but he’s actually the 50,000th, and wins the prize.

Of course, Baier’s offering of a vague Fox News prize for the referrer, as well as the 100,000th follower, could just be a clever homage to the black-and-white TV classic.

Our interest is also piqued by what this “prize package” could be. A lock of Sean Hannity‘s hair? A list of everything in Steve Doocy‘s trash? Eric Bolling‘s unused ties? Feel free to take your best guess below in the comment section.

Bret Baier

Anonymous

Kind of sad when a person has to buy Twitter followers.
Anonymous

The sock that they put in Andrea Tantaros’ mouth in between appearances?
Gloves Doc Donahue

What did Mr. Finch sell and long did it take to get 50,000 customers?
If you walked in and didn’t buy anything, were you a customer?
Did Dennis buy anything?

What if the prize is Bob Beckel’s snapped suspenders or lunch with Alan Colmes?

Too risky to enter this contest.
Anonymous

And that prize is… an evening with Steve Doocy.
Anonymous

Twitter followers don’t have much of a value (in my opinion anyways). Its just a milestone of note and an excuse to engage his audience. Hardly newsworthy but I’m sure he appreciates the exposure.
http://profile.yahoo.com/WYSMEMRFBNILXNDS6FEPRIALYI RickL

what if # followers actually goes down??
Anonymous

Couldn’t help but notice in light of Bret’s announcement that Media Matters is busily boasting of their 50,000 followers!!

They have all that money… all that liberal influence… all those connections to mainstream news and the White House… and all they get is half of Bret’s follower #s!!
http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

And ‘ll double whatever Bret is offering if ex, Emp, voltman or leedog puts him over the top!
http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

The prize is, Rupert Murdoch wont hack your voicemail.
http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

Lol!! I was thinking it might be a Bill O’ Reilly mug!!
Anonymous

50,000 followers is great for a website only outlet that focuses only on Fox News hypocrisy….. However Bret can only scrape 100,000???? followers and he’s on Television / Internet / ect ?? that sucks.

most of those followers are paid fakes…
Gloves Doc Donahue

First prize: Copy of the new Lis Wiehl bestseller.

Second prize: Two copies.
Anonymous

Me too.
My 100,000th follower gets a free pizza and a six pack.
Anonymous

I think I’ll wait to be the 100 millionth follower.
http://profile.yahoo.com/565TCXMB2XP263LC6JONTU4N6A Kim

My friend just met a chocolate man on Blackwhitemeet.COMit’s where for men and women looking for interracial’ship for a fabulous lifestyle
It’s a nice place for black white sing’les, to interact with each other…no bounds or extremes in front of true love.
Just some Blow Hard…

anybody think that Sarah Palin uses this site?