One of the biggest stories in social media earlier this month was that of Brian Maupin, a Best Buy employee who faced threats of being fired because of videos he uploaded to YouTube. The most popular of Maupin’s videos, iPhone4 vs HTC Evo, portrayed a generic electronics store employee trying to convince a customer that wants the iPhone 4 that he should buy the HTC EVO 4G instead. Best Buy did not see the humor in the video and threatened to fire Maupin over it, even though there was no reference to Best Buy in the viral video or Maupin’s YouTube channel. Now Maupin is fighting back with a new YouTube clip, TweetFired.
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