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Value of a Human Life
By Josh Witten | June 30th 2009 11:21 PM | 1 comment | Print | E-mail | Track Comments
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Maj. Frazer:
Just how much do you think human lives are worth, McCabe?

Marshal Guthrie McCabe:
Whatever the market will bear! No more, no less.
-Two Rode Together (1961)

Well, I don't know how much a human life is worth or what the market will bear, but I do know what the value of a Twitter follower is.

Last week, Mythbuster* Adam Savage (donttrythis) successfully fought off $11,000 in data and roaming charges from AT&T by directing the great displeasure of his Twitter followers, who at the time numbered around 50,000 (since swelled to over 67,000).
AT&T guy on the phone with me:" apparently you've got enough
Twitter followers to get our attention." me: "50,000". Him: "wow"

Minimum value of a Twitter follower = $0.22. 

*Code for "Instead of doing basic math on TV, I blow things up"


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logicman's picture
nobody wants to mess with a man who blows things up for a living

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/26/mythbuster-adam-savage-leads-twitte...

From AT&T's own website:
Wireless: The convenient and affordable way to stay in touch abroad.

Affordable:  a buzzword, meaning: 'if you can't afford to pay, we don't want your custom.'

Patrick Lockerby | 07/01/09 | 06:10 AM

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