Thanks for sharing. This is run by my brother and I.
Legality is an interesting one, we sought counsel before starting. There is fair use protection for a parody or caricature of a celebrity. We’re doing this out of nothing but respect for Elon, and we hope it brings people some fun!
Thanks, the reason I ask is that there have been a couple of articles lately on how much form data Chrome stores. (a somewhat rabid piece is here: http://www.usatoday.com/story/cybertruth/2013/10/10/google-c...) I keep wondering if that is an actual threat or not and if so how we could detect it.
Just random musings: say that you signed up at a random point in time within a two year period, and that they also e-mail people at a random point in time within a two year period. The odds of their e-mail arriving within 40 minutes of you signing up are then about 1 in 26,000. Low, but you'd expect it to happen to a few people.
I'm not sure how the birthday paradox would apply here, since we're matching up two events per person, not matching up nearby events where you're looking for pairs among multiple people.
Literally the last two times I have text my wife suggesting pizza for dinner I have had an advertisement SMS from Dominos moments later. If it wasn't for the shocking state of Dominos tech (website and mobile app) I would think they had some crazy surveillance going on!
Some kind of pavlov's dog response? IE Dominos sends SMS marketing on a roughly predictable timetable, and on a couple of days those messages arrived late, causing you to subconsciously anticipate pizza news and suggest getting pizza?
Seems possible actually. Wasn't there just something yesterday on Dominos using pizza-smelling ink on DVDs? The DVD would heat up in the player and produce a pizza smell, inspiring hunger and hopefully a trip to Dominos. That's pretty dastardly. Timing advertisements seems to be much more in the realm of possibility.
With the current state of mobile app permissioning, I wouldn't be surprised if analytics companies are mining text message history for signals. This should be easy for you to test though.