NBA Player Sells Bulldog on Twitter

Say you're a successful NBA player. Your massive Twitter following comes with many advantages: increased marketing appeal, the ability to interact with fans and a platform to break your own news on your own terms, just to name a few

Kendrick Perkins, however, just found a new and innovative way to leverage Twitter: as a secondary marketplace to shed some unwanted canine cargo. That's right — Perkins just sold his English bulldog on the microblogging network after posting a series of ads and photos for his 55,000 followers

But no slimy sales pitches here, folks. Perkins opened up the action with a tweet that digitally looked you in the eye, and shook your hand firmly: