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Listed below are comments made by p_p_p_p between Monday, 29th June 2009 and Sunday, 9th August 2009.

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The day Twitter stopped 12:04pm on 09 Aug 2009 @Ltsgosrfn
> I am so tired of hearing about twitter and I just hope it goes away
Don't worry it will. It's just a passing fad.
I think the reason the beeb promote it so much is that it fits in with their view of what their audience wants. They seem to have developed a model that to succeed, something in the media must be:
short,
simple,
superficial
Which explains why their programmes are pretty much all going in this direction. (It's probably a reflection more of their middle-management than what real people want, but since we don't get a say ....)
Just as soon as twitters users realise that it's an empty, hollow experience. And as soon as the owners realise they can't make any money from it, it'll die a death - and no-one will care.
Jackson: Did the internet buckle? 3:06pm on 29 Jun 2009 At a guess, I'd say that it simply wasn't as big a story outside the USA. While they might have swamped some websites to find out / share grief, it doesn't look as if that happened so much everywhere else.
Of course the time difference probably had some effect - as the story broke late at night, so almost no-one in the uk (unless they watched Newsnight) would have known.
Plus, there's the american propensity for exaggeration: whenver they say "the world ... did something ", they really only mean the USA did it.

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