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INTEREST: RDG Anime Fans Hijack Reading Hashtag




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Dop.L



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 06, 2013 8:12 pm Reply with quote
I am quite unreasonably amused by this. Silly local newspaper for Reading, I suspect most people tweeting about Red Data Girl have never even heard of Reading!
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faintsmile1992



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PostPosted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 8:50 am Reply with quote
Dop.L wrote:
I am quite unreasonably amused by this. Silly local newspaper for Reading, I suspect most people tweeting about Red Data Girl have never even heard of Reading!
I'm in the UK and I don't even know wherabouts Reading is, so yea, you're probably right.
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MiwaSatoshi
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 9:34 am Reply with quote
Congratulations, local area newspaper, for discovering that hashtags are not, in fact, trademarked or copyright-protected.

Does anyone else feel that any entity trying to impose "official usage" on hashtags is categorically #doingitwrong ?
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