Twitter, What is it Good For?
Remember that crazy red headed guy from Mythbusters, Adam Savage? Yeah, the guy with the goatee and thick black frame glasses. Well, he made the news recently and not because of some crazy debunked myth. Adam racked up an $11,000 cell phone bill while in Canada.
Apparently the problem was with the USB modem plugged into his laptop. The wireless plan he had subscribed to was only suitable for the U.S. not Canada. AT&T claimed that he accumulated 9 million kilobytes in uploaded/downloaded data. For those of you who can’t do the computation, that’s 9 freaking GIGS!
Being fed up with charges, he did what any faithful Twitter user would. He complained to the masses. Within the day AT&T became a trending Twitter topic and soon the chatter was too great for AT&T to ignore. Needless to say, AT&T dealt with Adam’s charges to his satisfaction.
Cool huh?
Now you can add this to your book as another useful way to use Twitter. As for me, I’m just going to try to NOT rack up an $11,000 cell phone bill.
Photo cred: noelzialee
