#DeleteUber campaign inspired 500,000 to delete accounts in one week: NYTimes

Uber executives, on a phone call with reporters Tuesday, seemed to imply that the social media campaign #DeleteUber had not affected their business's bottomline. 

The New York Times then reported, via three anonymous sources with access to the internal metrics, that about 500,000 people had requested to delete their accounts in the week following the campaign's origin. 

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There's a chance that many of the people in the group of 500,000 did not delete their accounts for the reasons behind the #DeleteUber campaign. There are plenty of reasons to delete Uber. Check out this Mashable piece from 2014 by our own chief critic Chris Taylor.  Read more...

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