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2011 in England2011 in cricketCommunity organizingCricket matchesEngvarB from August 2013
Internet-based activismInternet-related activismSport in LancashireStephen Fry
John Popham and umpire at Twicket
John Popham and umpire at 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 and mentioned on Twitter by Stephen Fry, the BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones and Jonathan Agnew (BBC cricket correspondent).

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