Games begin not with a bang, but a Tweet
By Chen Xiangfeng in London | China Daily | Updated: 2012-08-01 08:08
Twitter is overseas Olympians' first choice of social media.
The London Games were once billed by the British Olympic Association's chief executive Andy Hunt as the "Twitter Games".
Six million users were on the service in 2008, compared to more than 600 million today - and London 2012 is expected to see an unprecedented amount of social media activity for a sporting event.
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