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While this is probably unintentional, if it weren't then it'd make some pretty good guerrilla advertising for his software.



The cynicist within me thinks that it was intentional. These days almost everything viral has been designed to be viral.


I found the opposite to be true. Whenever I did something "guerilla marketing"-style, it never worked.

Though, of course, the intentional part of this was that I took a screenshot to share with my friends and Twitter followers, but I never thought it would become that popular. (BTW, I took it and posted to Twitter in May, however it became hot when I used it as an illustration of my opinion in reddit comment.)




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