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Twicket
Twicket (a portmanteau of Twitter and Cricket) was a village cricket match, streamed world-wide on the Internet on Easter Monday, 25 April 2011, with the intention of highlighting the need for high-capacity upstream broadband to enable community content provision.〔 This innovative exercise—claimed to be a world first〔—caught media attention, making BBC television news, BBC Radio London, TalkSport,〔〕 Radio New Zealand;〔〕 and being written about by ''The Guardian'', The Observer and ''Metro''〔''Metro'', 15 April 2011〕 and mentioned on Twitter by Stephen Fry,〔(– A World First? Live Broadcast of a Village Cricket Match )〕 the BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones〔( A live village cricket match on Twitter )〕 and Jonathan Agnew (BBC cricket correspondent).〔(RT @Pam_nAshes Have you heard about the Village cricket match being streamed live on the web on Monday? )〕
== Background ==
The event was conceived by consultant John Popham after seeing two comments on Twitter;〔 in the first Dan Slee expressed his hopes for keeping up with a local village cricket team via Twitter.〔 Then, Chris Conder mentioned that she was testing a new 30Mbps, symmetrical internet connection, recently installed by Lancaster University〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=RuralConnect Living Labs )〕 in her village, Wray, in Lancashire, England,〔 one of only three villages in the UK to have a symmetrical community network.〔
On learning from Conder that Wray was to hold a special cricket match part of the village's annual Scarecrow Festival,〔 billed as Wray vs. the Rest of the World,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wray scarecrow village UK information page )〕 Popham decided to broadcast it to the world to demonstrate the potential of high-speed synchronous broadband.〔 He explained:〔
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