It now turns out that Twitter has a use, aside from getting news out about major world events! Shocking!
Adam Savage, the guy from Mythbusters, had a phone bill from AT&T for $11,000. Apparently he was in Canada and got heavily charged for light data usage. Just like any other phone company on the planet, AT&T sent him the bill, expecting just a call on it’s customer service line from a person famous for blowing things up.
Sadly, AT&T failed to recognise that Adam had over 50,000 Twitter Followers watching whatever @donttrythis said.
To those that don’t know, that’s a lot.
Eventually the noise got to someone vaguely important at AT&T whom stepped in and sensibly (for a phone company at least) cut the charges down to a far more manageable size. Cue cheering from huddled masses of Twitter followers…
The use of Twitter: Mobilizing thousands to do what only one voice cannot. Let’s just hope that Adam doesn’t use his new-found powers for evil…
[via Computerworld.com via Switched]
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