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Posted By STONERS 1 year, 4 months ago in Science & Technology
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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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    STONERS1 year, 4 months ago

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    "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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      reviewer1 year, 4 months ago

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      I bet AT et al are happy. :-)

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        david_nwpa1 year, 4 months ago

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        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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