PeggyOlson is a micro-blog hosted on the website

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. It is written in the voice of ''

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'' character

Peggy Olson Margaret "Peggy" Olson is a fictional character and the female lead of the AMC television series ''Mad Men'', and is portrayed by Elisabeth Moss. Initially, Peggy is secretary to Don Draper (Jon Hamm), creative director of the advertising agency ...

. She describes herself as "Sr. copywriter at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. Rising star on Madison Ave." located in "New York City, 1963" and has over 23,000 followers. The Twitter account is run by Carri Bugbee, a marketing consultant from Portland, Oregon. She created the Twitter account to "“to see what kind of potential Twitter had to build brand without being obvious.” AMC's lawyers did not approve of her Twitter account; she received an "account suspended" notice from Twitter shortly after she started tweeting, but after her Twitter fans protested, her account was reinstated. Her win in the Advertising category of the 2009

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"really got everyone in the contest talking" and "outrag dsome of the real-life ad shops in the running", who Rickrolled her in retaliation.Elizabeth Holmes
"Surviving the Drama of the Twitter Awards"
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, February 11, 2009

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