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Not sure how credible this is but the article does have a comment from someone saying that the twitter feed said the card had money when in fact it did not. The

• jyap 15y ago
  I put in $11 on Sunday at a very slow time. I saw the $11 top up shortly after in real time on the @jonathanscard Twitter feed. It was the only tweet for about 10 minutes when my $11 was mostly used up. My proof! http://twitpic.com/62shre http://twitpic.com/62shre Then someone contacted me via Twitter to say that they used my credits: https://twitter.com/#!/PinoyxJay/status/100455783979954176 https://twitter.com/#!/PinoyxJay/status/100455783979954176 Believe what you want.
• kellishaver 15y ago
  You are correct that the Twitter feed isn't quite real-time. It only updates once a minute and the card was getting a lot of activity.
• geraldalewis 15y ago
  I appreciate that you asked in earnest, but the original comment conjures images of "trip-and-fall grifts" and "playing the long con". I usually look at big things like this in terms of where the money's going. But in the context of 'get unwitting customers to show up for free coffee when there's no money on a viral marketing gift card so that they'll spend money anyway', I'd ask 'where's the credit going' -- and no one at Starbucks corporate will claim creating a sleazy confidence game for some career leverage. And I'd also ask Occam for a razor.