Nielsen: Obama text reached 2.9 million »

Posted By STONERS 10 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology

Let's say Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama sent every one of those "here's my V.P." text messages from his own cell phone. And let's say his mean, nasty carrier charged him ten cents for each one. According to Nielsen's numbers, his bill would've been $290,000--that's because the statistics firm says that the SMS campaign stunt reached 2.9 million people.

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    STONERS10 months, 2 weeks ago

    "The company's Nielsen Mobile division did the math, monitoring approximately 40,000 SMS short-code lines in the U.S. and coming up with the final tally of 2.9 million."

    WOW!!!!

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      reviewer10 months, 1 week ago

      I bet AT et al are happy. :-)

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        david_nwpa10 months, 1 week ago

        At first I thought you meant it took 2.9 million characters. I wondered why it took sooooo long to get it. But now the story makes sense. He has a number of accomplishments, to be sure.

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