Gabe Fleisher, a 17-year-old from St. Louis, Missouri, was the first to break the news that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was running for president.
Fleisher put an image of the notice on Twitter, and it exploded. The high school junior had just broken the news that the mayor of the largest city in the US was hopping into the 2020 race.
But he did not expect the tweet to blow up to the extent that it did ahead of de Blasio's campaign video release and"It's been pretty wild," Fleisher said."I've been at school all day. In my pocket my phone has been going off all day with alerts and stuff from Twitter and a lot of different people." "There was a little a bit of back and forth over email trying to get them to confirm, which they didn't," Fleisher said.
The newsletter gained 1,000 or so followers after his big scoop, Fleisher said. He's also received numerous media requests.
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