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Torrance Harris

Founder & CEO / Social Engineer of Acrochat

If you are reading this you have been influenced by him some kind of way and you possibly don’t even know it. In the near future he will change the way people talk, text, and type simply by using acronyms, you will never look at a normal word the same. Torrance Harris is the founder of “Acrochat”, (www.acrochat.com) it’s the world’s only acronym based social network, a photo sharing website “Flodger” (www.flodger.com), and dating app like none other “Petty” (www.petty.chat). He noticed the internet world consisted of a language that would eventually be used in everyday communication. Torrance explains, “every social network does the same thing which consist of connecting people but Acrochat is the only social network that gives users the option to change the way you communicate using an embedded language that is built off the premise of acronyms”. During the development & testing phase of Acrochat Torrance created this “internet chatbot persona” that involved his social engineering and marketing skills. It allowed him to attract people to join his social site and once joining they would convince friends to sign up. This allowed Acrochat to grow to 30,000 users off simple “word of mouth”. Spending 4 years in college only to obtain an associates degree in mechanical engineering technology. He applied and received his first business license in 1998 starting a video game repair company called Game Over Enterprise. His knowledge of disrupting the internet started in the early 2000’s hanging out in the hacker’s lounge on yahoo messenger where he first experienced the pros and cons of DDOS programs and traffic exchange software can be. He had a brief stint in the music industry managing his main artist who was his brother. Torrance wanted the album sales to grow rapidly so he searched for a glitch in the recording industry network and found it. He purchased bar-codes from GS1 US (https://www.gs1us.org/) formerly know as Uniform Code Council and he hacked the numbers associated with obtained bar-codes. Consumers would purchase his brother’s cd in store consisting of only 2 songs for $0.50 and once the store scanned the bar-code it would credit and register as a full album sale from Nielsen SoundScan. His brother’s album sales increased making him #3 in sales in some stores in Memphis. He hired an Manhattan attorney Anthony Arther (www.artherlaw.com) to represent his label where they had meetings with Badboy, Interscope, etc. but to no avail a deal was ever made. Torrance stock portfolio contains shares in Snapchat, Facebook, online travel, textile, oil and gas, and etc. In 2004, he exploited a Sony PlayStation glitch simply using a router w/ yahoo email MP3s attached to knock their game servers offline. Glitching his online internet enemies he saw it as fun to counter against cheaters. In 2010 he disrupted top music mixtape website Datpiff.com, changing artists user stats and giving them more views and more recognition and leaving his number for DatPiff CEO to call him so he could discuss how vulnerable his website was. He has worked for companies such as Sharp Electronics, Microsoft XBox Division, Amazon, FedEx, and Beckman Coulter. He owned an ATM repair company ATM Geek that was notarized by FedEx and he served on Fed Ex Mobile Council Board. Retired from his days of being one of the first and self-proclaimed internet trolls, Torrance main focus is his family and making sure his social networking sites are used for fun and not evil. He will tell you all the years of what he was doing he considered real life research & development to find out how vulnerable things are and eventually finding a solution to make them stronger.

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