Person of interest: Alex Simmons  Share with others:  Print
Email Read Later  Alex Simmons is known as @AverageBlackMan on
Twitter, where he has amassed more than 75,000 followers.  He
spends around three to four hours a day there. He usually tweets
or re-tweets more than 50 times a day -- often positive,
inspirational messages designed to help others deal with what
life throws at them.  "Social media is the quickest way to get a
message out," Mr. Simmons said. "I use it to motivate people."
Sample tweets: "If it's stressing you, it's not blessing you."
"Dear Lord today delete negative input, clean out viruses, block
all hackers, give me a better memory & open a new file!"  "I
don't write tweets ... I write life."  How did AverageBlackMan
gain such an enviable following? "It basically happened
overnight. The right people were reading my tweets and
retweeting them." Some were celebrities and athletes with large
followings of their own that helped get his Twitter page
rolling.  " I have followers from all ove