Jeff Bezos is the CEO/Investor of Amazon and the surprise (probably all publicity and hype) has something to do with Cyber Monday.
— ThinkingOutLOUD (@JoeyDavid) December 2, 2013
“60 Minutes” has been promoting an interview with Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, and promising the unveiling of a “big surprise.”
Speculation is running rampant:
@TMFJMo Same-day delivery from Amazon. #bezos #surprise
— Corey Rice (@WHR3) December 2, 2013
Bezos’ big surprise for @amazon? Drone deliveries. http://t.co/wn4rs7iZ2X
— Christopher Scanlon (@chrisscanlon_) December 2, 2013
What if Jeff Bezos's Big Surprise that shocks Charlie Rose is that Bezos has built a robot Charlie Rose who will take over starting now?
— Ben Greenman (@bengreenman) December 2, 2013
My guess re the Bezos surprise – a 3d printer
— Joe Flood (@joeflood) December 2, 2013
What if Jeff Bezos's Big Surprise is that he has changed a few words in every e-book that Amazon has sold?
— Ben Greenman (@bengreenman) December 2, 2013
The big surprise is that Charlie Rose has a new job at an Amazon fulfillment center? http://t.co/iH3iV6a3cI
— Gretchen Gavett (@GretchenMarg) December 2, 2013
"Neither of these teams will win the Super Bowl, that's the surprise."
-Jeff Bezos, as soon as Denver-KC ends— Mark Berman (@markberman) December 2, 2013
Way to tweet about the boss —-> RT @ezraklein Looking forward to Jeff Bezos revealing that he’s actually been Santa all along
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) December 2, 2013
We will update this post after the “big surprise” is announced.
Update:
The “surprise”: A delivery system based on drones?
https://twitter.com/AlexPappas/status/407315512134483968
Bezos shows Charlie Rose small drones Amazon might use in future for small 1/2 hour deliveries. Programmed by GPS. Pretty wild
— HowardKurtz (@HowardKurtz) December 2, 2013
jeff bezos unveils drones for delivery. hmmmm. What could possibly go wrong? #60minutes #amazon
— Barb Darrow (@gigabarb) December 2, 2013
Many Twitter users called it:
People who called the Bezos surprise: @JosifMcK @dylanjschneider @elidourado @mappingbabel @urquhartmp @ptraughber @derektmead @ldrogen
— Paul Needham (@paul_needham) December 2, 2013
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Amazon planning package delivery by drone; What could possibly go wrong?
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional tweets
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