Meredith Boxberger has started a website at http://DeepFriedDiva.com/ The home page announces her intention to compete in Coney Island on July 4, 2012.
EatingContest.in has been started to promote collegiate eating contests in India. The goal of the organization is to: "offer eating competitions to college students at their campuses as a form of entertainment during college events, and fests". There is one event listed for February 10, which is billed as the first ever eating contest in India.
A new twitter account has been started at @BettyDoesFood. Betty is the first woman to have eaten two Big Ugly burgers at Bub's in Carmel, IN and she also ate all 25 items available in a vending machine in another challenge.
Matt Stonie has started a blog at mattstonie.blogspot.com
Randy Santel has produced a video promoting his website RandySantel.com
A new facebook fan page for Suzilla: The Mouth That Roars has been set up to replace the page that was closed. The page has a link to a short video interview of Suzanne French.
CompetitiveEaters.com, the website for All Pro Eating has been retooled with a new look. Eric "Silo" Dahl heads the new top 10 list. (via comment)
Dave "US Male" Goldstein has started a facebook fan page with several galleries of his contests and challenges.
Takeru Kobayashi has started a new facebook fan page at http://www.facebook.com/KobiEats
Randy Santel has started a home page at http://randysantel.com/ The website has both advice for nutrition/diet and attempting eating challenges along with a schedule of upcoming eating challenge attempts.
Mary Bowers has two new web pages: twitter.com/EatBeMary and facebook.com/EatBeMary
Several new competitive eater twitters have started in the past month: Scott Bickel @realscottbickel, Meredith Boxberger @deepfrieddiva, Eric Dahl @EricSiloDahl, Aaron Osthoff ATrain_44,Randy Santel @RandySantel (replacing @AtlasZeusPromos)
Don Lerman has updated the appearance of TheLermanReport.com
Dale Boone has started a facebook fan page titled "World Champion Dale Boone".
"Gentleman" Joe Menchetti has started a facebook fan page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gentleman-Joe/246717538701576
Eric "Silo" Dahl has started a facebook fan page at http://www.facebook.com/ericsilodahl.
Maria Edible (formerly known as Maria "The Incredible Sulk") has started a twitter at http://twitter.com/mariaedible.
Most followed competitive eater twitter pages
In response to a comment, here is a list of twitter pages for competitive eaters with 250 or more followers. Please let me know if there are any I have missed (follower totals are from 9pm eastern).
- 2905 Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin updated
- 2563 Joey Chestnut
- 1331 “Furious” Pete Czerwinski
- 1050 Takeru Kobayashi
- 802 “Hungry” Todd Rungy
- 680 Pat Bertoletti
- 385 Grace Lee
- 373 Eric “Badlands” Booker
- 269 Erik Denmark
- 268 Brian Dudzinski
Takeru Kobayashi has changed the appearance of his website and moved it from http://www.takeru-kobayashi.com/ to http://kobayashitakeru.com/index.html
Eric "Badlands" Booker has started a new website at http://www.badlandsbooker.me/ and will be releasing a new CD titled Big Man Mentality on Thanksgiving. IFOCE.com also has a new article about Booker.
Randy Santel has started a twitter at http://twitter.com/atlaszeuspromos
Todd "The Hungry Genius" Greenwald, founder of The National Collegiate Competitive Eating Association, has started a blog at http://thehungrygenius.blogspot.com/
Grace Lee has started a tumblr page at http://maneatergrace.tumblr.com/.The "About Me" section describes Grace as an undefeated food eating champion.
Grace Lee has started a twitter about competing in the Nathan's finals at http://twitter.com/ManeaterGrace Scott Bickel has also started a new twitter at http://twitter.com/thescottbickel
Don Lerman announces that he is dropping competitive eating coverage from his website due to lack of interest.