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Internet campaign offers hope to homeless man

an Internet marketing campaign has made Tim Edwards the human face of homelessness to thousands of online viewers drawn to his website by its deliberately controversial name u2014 Pimp This Bum

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Until a few weeks ago, Tim Edwards was just another one of the men begging for change at a busy Houston underpass. Now, thanks to an Internet marketing campaign and unlikely allies, Edwards has become the human face of homelessness to thousands of online viewers drawn to his website by its deliberately controversial name u2014 Pimp This Bum.

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HOPEFUL: Tim Edwards.
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During regular webcasts, dozens of visitors to http://www.pimpthisbum.com/ ask questions about Edwards' life and his slow fall from office manager with a home, a car, and a future to an outcast short of hope and with little prospect of help.

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