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* In 2005, Steve Wade, a Tasmanian-based Saab fan, launched a blog about his favourite car. Six years, 5400 articles and 50,000 comments later, Saab formally credited [http://www.saabsunited.com SaabsUnited] with helping to save the company, and employed him in their newly-formed global social media marketing team (based in Melbourne, Australia).
** Unfortunately it didn't seem to last long or save the company.
* A list of them appear in ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s [http://www.cracked.com/article_19836_5-celebrities-who-got-famous-by-being-obsessed-fanboys.html
* Gossip journalist David "Spec" Mc Clure was fascinated by [[Audie Murphy]]'s [[Crazy Awesome|military career]] and arranged to meet him when Murphy was filming his first supporting role in a film. The two became good friends, with Mc Clure co-writing ''To Hell and Back'', both the book and the movie script, and acting as an informal press agent for Murphy. Murphy's second wife, Pamela, was also something of an Promoted Fangirl. She had been trying to meet him ever since she saw him on the cover of Life magazine in the mid-forties, and finally succeeded in the early fifties. They dated steadily while the divorce from his first wife was finalized, married shortly thereafter, and despite some rough periods remained married until his death.
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