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Olympic Twitter Alert Feed Blocked

A feed that alerted followers when tickets were available for events has been blocked.

Reason Staff | 8.3.2012 9:08 AM

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The man behind an unofficial Olympic ticket alerts feed says he is "shocked" by an effort to block the service.

Adam Naisbitt wrote a computer program that polled the official Olympics ticket site to spot when tickets for events were released.

He shared ticket information via Twitter and helped hundreds buy tickets to watch the games.

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