IOC asks Olympic spectators to chill it with the excessive
Tweets  The International Olympic Committee has run into a bit
of a spectrum bandwidth problem at the London Olympics. It seems
that spectators at some of the Olympic venues are tweeting so
much, that it's squeezing out the signals for essential event
related communications.  The problem came to a head at the men's
cycling road race, with up to a million spectators lining the
route. Massive bandwidth use by fans sending tweets and watching
live coverage of the event on their phones, made it difficult
for the TV networks to get telemetry data about the positions of
the various riders. This then had a snowballing effect with fans
tweeting their disgust at the lousy information being delivered
to their trackside phone viewing.  Network service at the games
is split between official provider BT, along with Vodafone and
O2. None of the three reported any specific network issues,
although a spokesman said that extra capacity is being added at
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