50 Cent is known as one of the most controversial rappers alive. He had had many battles with rappers Ja Rule, Rick Ross, The Game and a few more, but 50 Cent also known as Curtis Jackson has become quite the businessman.
He has many business ideas and products such as G-Unit Records, G-Unit Clothing Company, G-Unit Sneakers, Vitamin Water, 50 Cent: Bulletproof (video game), a series of G-Unit Books, buying a platinum mine to brand his own line of platinum, breaking a deal with Right Guard for his own body spray, "Pure 50", establishing his own film company, Cheetah Vision, the launch of ThisIs50.com, Sleek by 50 Cent headphones, trademarking the names 50 Cent and G-Unit and the list continues.
All of these companies, business ideas or products have remained successful through 50 Cent's brilliant use of social media. His main source of social media is through his twitter page @50Cent. He tweets about everything he has ever been in connection with. One of his big success happened in 2009 when he sent a direct message his twitter followers to keep #beforeiselfdestruct a trending topic. This was all while in preparation for his album Before I Self-Destruct to release. He would also tweet about his songs, free ticket giveaways and iTune downloads before his album released. 50 also tweeted to his followers that they invest in his stock H&H Imports, which increased rapidly in the stock market.
Not only is he big on twitter with over 4.6 million followers, he also has a blog web site, ThisIs50.com, where fans can connect with one another and post videos, events, music and more. This site also has a twitter page with over 70,000 followers as most of his other products have twitter pages as well. 50 as well as his brands are also connected through Facebook, Youtube, Google and Yahoo!.
According to Forbes.com in 2006, he was ranked #8 in The Celebrity 100 and #4 for Forbes Wealthiest Rappers 2011. With his brilliant business decisions, he will become one of the top wealthiest individuals in the world.
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