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From the page: "The star of MythBusters, Adam Savage, has had an $11,000 charge for data roaming dropped thanks to his 60,000 Twitter followers. Savage was in Canada when he used his US-registered AT&T USB mobile broadband device for a "few hours of surfing". He was later... more

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Rated by MJN8 on Jul 02, 12:03am

I'm happy for Adam, sad for everyone else who is normal and just gets screwed by AT&T.
Rated by Nutzilla on Jul 01, 6:47pm

This doesn't happen with regular people(not because of twitter), and it isn't such a secret that AT&T(and others) over charge with their overages or out of area charges. These cases are good to show that metered charges are not the way to go and that the carriers and ISPs need (by law)to see this.
Rated by litefire on Jul 01, 12:35pm

Agreed with Noahchenhalls, this sort of stuff happens all the time.
Rated by noahchenhalls on Jul 01, 9:45am

This doesn't showcase the power of Twitter, but the power of celebrity. If this had happened to a regular person without a huge fan base that just happens to be on Twitter, I have serious doubts that those outrageous charges would have been dropped. The last line says it all. "Apparently you've got enough Twitter followers to get our attention." That translates to 'It's a good thing you have thousands and thousands of fans, otherwise you'd be screwed, because individuals don't matter.'
Rated by xcrissxcrossx on Jul 01, 8:09am

Twitter isn't this important.
Rated by JamesLite on Jul 01, 7:27am

I hate Twatter.

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