SOPA Explodes on Twitter, Generates 2.4 Million Tweets ~ Pare News

Kamis, 19 Januari 2012

SOPA Explodes on Twitter, Generates 2.4 Million Tweets

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More than 2.4 million SOPA-related tweets were sent between 12 a.m. and 4 p.m. ET Wednesday, Twitter announced.

The top five terms that day were SOPA, Stop SOPA, PIPA, Tell Congress and #factswithoutwikipedia.

The surge of tweets were related to the massive Internet protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its sister bill PIPA. During the protest, online services such as Wikipedia and Reddit went offline for the better part of the day, and other major web players, such as Google and Facebook, also expressed their disapproval of the bills.

As for the contents of the tweets, the popular terms “Stop SOPA” and “Tell Congress” reveal that most Twitter users also oppose these bills.

Twitter, which has been known to suffer outages due to traffic surges in the past, worked without noticeable glitches.

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These sites have "blacked out" Wednesday, Jan. 18 in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). It makes it just a little bit easier to imagine what the web could look like if some of the measures from the proposed bill were to become law.

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