Twitter promise

Shelflife

Just curious about this.

A "celeb" or known person tweets if Mcgregor wins I will give €10000 to everyone who retweets this.

If he had won where would you stand if you had retweeted it ?

endacl

You'd be 10 g's up! 10 g's baby!

Obviously

super_furry

Shelflife wrote: »

If he had won where would you stand if you had retweeted it ?

With your hand out waiting forever.

Peregrinus

Classic stuff. Is there a contract? Under general common law principles, it boils down to whether there was an intention to create legal relations. On the face of it it looks like it, but the celeb would no doubt plead that the offer was so preposterous that no reasonable person could take it as evincing a real contractual intent.

Plus, there'd be the usual jurisidictional issues; what jurisidictions laws apply to determine whether a contract was formed? The laws of the place where the celeb is? The place where the retweeter is? The place where the Twitter servers are hosted? The place (if any) nominated in Twitter's terms of service?

Since the celeb has deeper pockets than you do, and has more at stake (probably more than one person retweeted) he will probably string this out until you run out of energy or resources to pursue the matter. Unless, of course, the retweeter is as rich as the celeb and wants to Prove A Point.

Victor

Peregrinus wrote: »

Since the celeb has deeper pockets than you do

Not any more! :pac:

Shelflife

I was just curious, just thinking that the downside of a potential legal threat and poor publicity was more than the upside of gaining a few more followers.