Eminem shares phone number using text-marketing startup Community

• The music artist Eminem has joined the text-marketing app Community, announcing to fans this week that they can text him at 313-666-7440.
• The rapper appears to be using Community to promote a new line of merchandise he’s releasing to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his album “The Marshall Mathers LP.”
• Here’s what you should know about how Community works and why the platform has taken off recently among celebrities and influencers alike.
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On Monday, the music artist Eminem tweeted out a phone number to fans with the instructions “text me, ill hit you back.”

The rapper’s listed phone number, 313-666-7440, isn’t his personal digits, even though its Detroit area code suggests it could be. The number was created by Community, an invite-only text-marketing startup that works with celebrities and influencers to offer what is essentially a text-message version of a standard email-marketing

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