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Am I supposed to authenticate my Twitter account on this thing? No thanks. Also, really sucks that the homeless will be left out of this giveaway.

• stephengillie 10y ago
  Where does the article say homeless people are excluded?
  • riebschlager 10y ago
    Surprisingly few homeless people are on Twitter.
    • astrodust 10y ago
      Just because you're homeless doesn't mean you're without a phone or access to a library where you could sign up for Twitter.
    • jpindar 10y ago
      Not so. Where do you get the idea the homeless people don't have phones? Also, you obviously don't go to many public libraries.
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• qwerty_asdf 10y ago
  Well, there are a couple of angles on these machines: 1. An overload of Big Macs eventually becomes bad for you. 2. There's no real barrier to people helping the homeless by donating their Twitter handle to this minor activity. 3. People without private personal access to the internet still have public resources they can manipulate, if some trivial social media account eventually nets them a burger. 4. There's no real barrier to creating unlimited Twitter accounts. I could whip up 100 disposable handles at a moment's notice if so inclined. Side note: how does twitter feel about this? 5. Because there are such low barriers to burger acquisition, and the available inventory of burgers is finite, do not be surprised when the not-so-infinite supply of burgers dries up, if machines get mobbed. So, while the machines are not a bottomless pit of burgers (lest cows go extinct) the non-homeless do clearly possess an advantage in emptying out the machines. Can't win 'em all...