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Re:Jeff Bezos Wants Ideas for Philanthropy, So He Asked Twitter by perseusprime11 on Thursday June 15, 2017 @10:03PM (#14566109)
Feels gimmicky. How is he planning to parse through millions of responses? Instead talk to leading non profits and get their advice or perhaps just help fund them instead of creating a new one. World does not need a new charity organization. Just help the ones that are finding it hard to raise money.

If I were Bezos, I would fund Elon Musk so Elon can solve as many problems as possible without worrying about investors.

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Re:Jeff Bezos Wants Ideas for Philanthropy, So He Asked Twitter by viraptor on Thursday June 15, 2017 @10:16PM (#14566163)
> How is he planning to parse through millions of responses?

https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome

Seriously though, it's going to be thousands of responses, not millions. Get 2-3 people for a day and the ideas can be collated into themes, then reported on, easily.

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Re:Jeff Bezos Wants Ideas for Philanthropy, So He Asked Twitter by Mz on Thursday June 15, 2017 @10:13PM (#14566158)
A little more than five hours after his request, there were more than 3,600 such replies

It seems to be thousands, not millions, and I am sure he has a secretary or -- the new PC term -- administrative assistant.

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Re:Jeff Bezos Wants Ideas for Philanthropy, So He Asked Twitter by perseusprime11 on Thursday June 15, 2017 @10:29PM (#14566210)
They'll do a word cloud and then do what? Is he is really going to act on these ideas without looking at real data on poverty, education, climate change, etc?
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Re:Jeff Bezos Wants Ideas for Philanthropy, So He Asked Twitter by spydum on Thursday June 15, 2017 @10:37PM (#14566252)
Alexa?
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Re:Jeff Bezos Wants Ideas for Philanthropy, So He Asked Twitter by perseusprime11 on Friday June 16, 2017 @10:47AM (#14569468)
Looks like my point is proved because he just announced Whole Foods acquisition. His tweet was a diversion to soften the blow from today's announcement.
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