By: Darren Rovell (CNBC.com) -

For the past four years, Mark Titus has done a great job becoming the world’s most famous walk-on.

When blogs got hot, he was there with Club Trillion. When lack of playing time didn’t allow him to display his skills, he took to YouTube with one of the most hilarious videos you’ll ever see.



The number of people following him on Twitter? 18,281. That’s roughly double the people following Evan Turner, his Ohio State teammate and likely second overall pick in Thursday night’s NBA Draft.

So when it came to thinking up who the Globetrotters might invite to its tryouts, Titus became a natural.

“We’re always out there monitoring people and his name just kept coming up,” said Globetrotters CEO Kurt Schneider. “In order to be a Globetrotter you need to be a great basketball player, which he is. He’s a dead-on shooter and he does the trick shots. You need to be an entertainer and his stuff on his blogs and his Twitter feed are hysterical and you have to be a good person, which we’ve heard he is.”

In order to make the team, Titus still has to try out at training camp in September, though Schneider admits that Titus’ social media domination gives him a……

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010 at 5:27 pm.
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