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Evil Business Models: AT&T
If you follow Nilofer or Mike, you know Nilofer got hit with a $10,000 mobile data bill from AT&T for a recent trip to Canada. Not only do the rates go up once you cross the border, the billing increment changes from MB to Kb! The net-net is mobile data service in while roaming Canada is 3000% the domestic rate. Yikes! What’s a person to do? The charges are legitimate; albeit unconscionable no matter how one measures these things.
Tags: arbitration , AT&T , mobile data , twitter
Understanding Twitter's growth and usage
One of the hottest recent stories in the tech industry has been the rapid rise of the messaging service Twitter. Starting from a small base of enthusiast users, the service has rapidly risen to prominence in the media, with extensive coverage of its adoption by celebrities. In the last month, Google counted about 65,000 news stories mentioning Twitter, and the web tracking service Alexa reported a remarkable 400% increase in traffic to Twitter.com in the last four months. In April 2009, Alexa reported that daily visits to twitter.com surpassed those to cnn.com: