Too Many Olympics Tweets Are Messing With TV Broadcasts

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Twitter have worked closely in recent weeks to promote the microblog service as a means to engage with athletes, competitions and London 2012. But mobile social media users are proving so voluminous at some Olympic venues that they are now interfering with mobile networks on which the games themselves depend, the IOC says.

“We don’t want to stop people engaging in this by social media and sending updates, but perhaps they might consider only sending urgent updates.”

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9 months ago

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