When Takafumi Horie was released from prison on March 27th, he hit Facebook, expanding his network from some 1,700 contacts to 3,300 a week later. The former boss of Livedoor, an internet firm, was convicted of fraud and jailed in 2011. But prison did not stop the entrepreneur, nicknamed Horiemon for his resemblance to a popular cartoon cat, from gathering almost 1m Twitter followers. He lost weight behind bars, but not his knack for publicity.
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