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SAN FRANCISCO — Someone is dropping envelopes full of cash across San Francisco — and causing an international frenzy on social media. And on Thursday night, the phenomenon spread to the south of California, causing such a frenzy that the mysterious Twitter user is reeling to figure out how to expand the hunt safely.

An anonymous man with the Twitter handle @HiddenCash has been hiding money throughout the San Francisco since last Friday, leading scores on a scavenger hunt. His Twitter following exploded from a few hundred last Friday to more than 350,000 and counting by midday this Friday.

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One of his clues Tuesday told San Francisco followers to “find Mr. Franklin along the ’crookedest street,’ (towards the bottom).”

Translation: There was a $100 bill at the bottom of Lombard Street, the popular touristy thoroughfare that’s best known as the “Crookedest Street in The World.”