London 2012 Blocks Unofficial Olympic Ticket Twitter Feed

An unofficial Twitter account that alerted fans to available tickets for Olympic events has been blocked by the London 2012 organizing committee.

Frustrated fans have been critical of the official tickets.london2012.com site, which is run by Ticketmaster, for repeatedly indicating tickets to major sports such as swimming have been available only to then say the events are sold out when users click to purchase. Television coverage showing empty seats at events has only increased the frustration.

So Adam Naisbitt built a program to check the site every three minutes for new tickets becoming available. Notifications were then instantly tweeted from the @2012TicketAlert feed, which has g…
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