Noida-based techie's tweet wins $36,000 MBA seat in US

May 03, 2012 12:10

In the age of Twitter, where 140 characters can earn you millions of followers, a 25-year-old Noida-based engineer won something rather more substantial. Rahul Rathi(@Rathirahul86), a technical associate withTech Mahindra, got himself an MBA seat valued at $36,400 in a US-based college after he participated in an 'International TweetCompetition' organized by the University of Iowa's Tippie School of Management (TSM).

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