Shenmue 500K group on facebook are plannning a one-off seperate tweetathon event before the major one 3 July. This tweetathon will focus on a US celebrity icon Conan O'Brien to bring Shenmue to his late night show. Apparently this guy have a popular video game segment on his show where it reach over 1 millon viewers on youtube alone.
This is the original post on the group:
Since Shenmue 3 will only offer a true open world if $10 million funding is met, We need a new strategy to bring more money in the kickstarter campaign. I believe the only way to reach that kind of money is promote Shenmue in popular media such as TV shows. One example is Conan O'Brien late night show. He has his segment "Clueless gamer" which he talk and play video games. He also has a youtube channel and this segmen is very popular and reahes over a million viewers. To have him talk about the kickstarter will allow us to reach people that don't even know about the game and will bring more contributions to reach the strech goals. I mean we should at least reach 5 million to have the fully expansion of Baisha Village. Now the hard work is get Shenmue in his show and there are already fans posting on his Facebook page but there doesn't seem to be a much reaction. We need try hard and convince and producers to allow this to happen.
27/06/2015: CONAN O'BRIEN @teamcoco + NERDY ASSISTANT @BigBley, ALL DAY
Do you its worth it or better wait till 3rd of july?