Matt Steffanina, an LA based dancer/choreographer extraordinaire and with a large social media following (4 M Youtube, 1.1 M Instagram, 179 K Twitter), recently used CallThere to talk to his fans while in New York and without sharing his phone number.
Matt just tweeted a link to a page instructing his fans to download and dial 212/NYC in CallThere for a chance to talk to him at certain times while he was in New York:
Get the @CallThereApp cause I’ll be taking phone calls this afternoon!!! I’ll tweet when I’m going live
Here’s how: https://t.co/g3Ry3zczXO
— Matt Steffanina (@MattSteffanina) May 21, 2016
Aright, taking calls for 15 mins!!! @CallThereApp 😁💯
— Matt Steffanina (@MattSteffanina) May 22, 2016
Almost right away, the first call came in from Massachusetts with others later from North Carolina, Texas, Brazil, Philippines, South Africa, and Sweden. Here’s Matt talking to a fan in Massachusetts:
Some of the reaction of his fans after:
Omg is this real….. I JUST TALKED TO THE ONE AND ONLY @MattSteffanina !!!!!!!!!!!!!!😭😭 today is a day I will NEVER forget !! IM SO HAPPY !
— Litzi & Stitch/LITzi (@LitziLoja) May 20, 2016
I can sleep in peace now! thank you @MattSteffanina for answering 🤘🏼💯
— Daniel (@daniel_alvear8) May 22, 2016
Thx @MattSteffanina for taking the time out of your day to talk to me and @shaunam2001!!!!! We love u ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
— kat (@katxoxo19) May 22, 2016
talking to @MattSteffanina on the phone was the best part of my day:) thanks Matt!!!!!
— Shauna Marshall (@shaunam2001) May 22, 2016
@MattSteffanina WE JUST TALKED ON THE PHONE AND I LOVE YOU YOU’RE SO NICE????? I WILL DEFINITELY COME TO NY NEXT TIME 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽😭😭😭😭😭💕💕💕💕💕
— Malack.xx (@Malack_xx) May 22, 2016
😭❤️ I got to talk to @MattSteffanina MATT STEFFANINA!!!
No one will know how happy I am ! I got to speak to my biggest role model !😁😁😁— Arishka (@Arishka8676) May 22, 2016
Awesome talkin to u guys ☺️☺️ I’ll tweet some more times I’ll be on for tmrw or Monday!@CallThereApp
— Matt Steffanina (@MattSteffanina) May 22, 2016
CallThere enabled Matt Steffanina to speak with several of his fans without sharing his phone number just by telling them to dial the area code of the city he was in. His fans would call that number and if someone else picked up, they would dial again until they had their chance to speak to him.