Just bought a coffee in the UK thanks Jonathan
Http://irishado.blogspot.com for a picture of the two Starbucks staff that served me in Birmingham, Victoria square
[EDIT] -> I bought a tall drip coffee and the balance dropped from 54.90 to zero between two twitter updates. Now with 2,756 followers on his twitter feed I'm not surprised that 50 dollars dropped that fast. Don't forget that twitters API only allows a certain number of calls per hour. So it is very possible that people are using it properly but its giving the impression that someone is draining the card. Don't forget that as per the statement that someone made about someone buying a coffee machine and paying the rest on their visa. That's a big risk to take there could be only $5 on the card and they would have to pay the rest.
The Twitter feed is not per second transactions. It would be great if Starbucks could give an API call to Jonathan to pull out once per hour the transactions + store location information for that hour which could then be put into a global heat map and would show very interesting results.
I was living in Dublin and came across a guy in the street asking for money for a "Cup of Tea", But I noticed he had a bag of tools for plastering and asked him why he was on the street. Seems that he had been working in Dublin as there was no work in belfast and he needed to pay the family bills and one of the flat mates ran off with the rent and he was kicked out by the landord and his work had dryed up. I gave him twenty euros for food and the name of a nice B&B asked him to meet me the next day in the same spot. I gave him about 60 euros the next day to get him back to belfast where he lived. Told him to do something nice for a stranger some time.
I believe in Karma but I don't do nice things to have nice things happen to me I do nice things to have nice things happen to others.
[EDIT] -> I bought a tall drip coffee and the balance dropped from 54.90 to zero between two twitter updates. Now with 2,756 followers on his twitter feed I'm not surprised that 50 dollars dropped that fast. Don't forget that twitters API only allows a certain number of calls per hour. So it is very possible that people are using it properly but its giving the impression that someone is draining the card. Don't forget that as per the statement that someone made about someone buying a coffee machine and paying the rest on their visa. That's a big risk to take there could be only $5 on the card and they would have to pay the rest.
The Twitter feed is not per second transactions. It would be great if Starbucks could give an API call to Jonathan to pull out once per hour the transactions + store location information for that hour which could then be put into a global heat map and would show very interesting results.
Thanks again.