Twitter battle in Turkey heats up, spreads to YouTube -- reports

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Twitter makes it easy to find first tweets

Samsung sets a high price for its smartwatches, Google lets you snap a photo with voice commands, and Twitter celebrates its eighth birthday by looking back at users' first tweets.

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Twitter dark in Turkey after PM's threat to 'wipe out' the service

Twitter is inaccessible in Turkey.

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Twitter reportedly went offline in Turkey on Thursday, just hours after the country's prime minister threatened to eradicate the social network from the country in the wake of allegations of corruption spread across social networks.

"We will wipe out Twitter. I don't care what the international community says," premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday during an election rally in the western province of Bursa.

"They will see the Turkish republic's strength," he added, according to the AFP news agency.

Twitter said Thursday that it was looking into reports that its microblogging service had already been banned in that nation. The social network advised users in Turkey that they could still send tweets by using SMS:

Turkish users: you can send Tweets using SMS. Avea and Vodafone text START to 2444. Turkcell text START to 2555.

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Turkish citizens fight back against Twitter ban

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The people of Turkey are still finding their way into the Twittersphere despite a government ban of the site.

On Thursday, Turkish courts took Twitter offline for the country's 76 million citizens following actions by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan. An unabashed critic of social networks, Erdogan has threatened to "wipe out" the site in the wake of a political corruption scandal that has embarrassed the government through news, videos, and images posted on Twitter.

But many Turkish citizens are tweeting their way past the ban with help from Twitter and Google.

Following the shutdown, Twitter quickly informed Turkish users that they could still tweet using SMS. Google also is providing a helping hand through the use of its free DNS (Domain Name System). Setting a PC or mobile device to use Google's DNS IP address of 8.8.8.8 is another to way to slip past the ban.

Graffiti displaying the phrase: "DNS 8.8.8.8" has even been spotted around Turkey, helping spread the word to fellow citizens. An image being posted on Twitter flashes the message: "Keep Calm" followed by 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 (8.8.4.4 is the alternate address for Google's DNS).

As such, the best laid plans of Erdogan to censor Twitter seem to be backfiring -- for now.

Soon after the ban, the hashtags #TwitterisblockedinTurkey and #TurkeyBlockedTwitter quickly became two of the top trending tags around the world. Since the ban started, the people of Turkey had posted more than 2.4 million tweets by 3 a.m. local time on Friday, CNBC reported, citing stats from Turkish Web site Zete.com.

The volume of tweets has actually risen by 138 percent, according to data from social media analytics firm Brandwatch. In a new study commissioned by social media agency We Are Social, Brandwatch found the increase after comparing the number of tweets sent in Turkey from 2 a.m. to 12 p.m. local time on Thursday with those sent during the same period on Wednesday.

Commenting on the data, Robin Grant, global managing director of We Are Social, said that the ban seems to be rallying more people in Turkey to take to Twitter:

The main effect so far of Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan's Twitter ban seems to have actually been inspiring more people to tweet.

Banning Twitter is clearly a counterproductive move that will ultimately will have the opposite effect to that intended. The Internet was designed to route around obstacles like PM Erdogan, and its users will continue to find ways to do so.

It appears people in Turkey are enjoying the challenge, tweeting via text message, through an anonymous VPN, by changing their DNS -- and it seems even those who may have had little interest in tweeting before are now getting involved.

As numerous politicians all over the world have discovered to their detriment in the past, it's not clever to pick a fight with social media. It's not one they're likely to win.

Even Turkey's own president has questioned the ban. In his own series of tweets posted since Twitter was cut off, Abdullah Gul said that social media platforms cannot be completely closed and that a shutdown of social media platforms cannot be approved.

But Gul's role as president is largely ceremonial, while Prime Minister Erdogan is the true head of Turkey's Islamic-based AK Party-led government. Gul's critics also say he has been reluctant to publicly criticize or challenge Erdogan due to his own political ambitions, according to Reuters.

Turkey's leader since 2003, Erdogan has been embroiled in a political scandal ahead of local elections set for March 30.

Audio recordings have surfaced on social media allegedly detailing conversations between Erdogan and his son in which the two discuss how to hide large amounts of money. Erdogan has condemned the recordings as fake. But the prime minister's critics see the crackdown on social media as a move to stifle news about the scandal.

The censorship of Twitter has already hurt Turkey in the wallet as well. In the wake of the shutdown, Turkish assets fell on Friday as the lira weakened further against the dollar, Reuters said. The lira was already under pressure, and the ban hasn't helped.

"It remains to be seen whether (the ruling) AK Party will benefit or suffer from the Twitter ban in the upcoming elections," Inan Demir, chief economist at Finansbank, told Reuters. "However, from a purely markets perspective, the whimsical/erratic attitude of the government can only add to Turkey's risk premium."

Turkey's censorship of Twitter has sparked outrage outside the country as well.

European Commission vice president Neelie Kroes called the ban "groundless, pointless, and cowardly" and said that the Turkish people and the international community will see this as the censorship that is it. Stefan Fule, European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy, issued a more formal statement condemning the ban:

The ban on the social platform Twitter.com in Turkey raises grave concerns and casts doubt on Turkey's stated commitment to European values and standards.

Freedom of expression, a fundamental right in any democratic society, includes the right to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority. Citizens must be free to communicate and choose freely the means to do it. This obviously includes access to the internet.

Open debate promotes transparency and accountability and ultimately reinforces democracy; such debate needs to be strengthened everywhere, including in Turkey.

And now the lawyers are getting involved in the battle. The Union of Turkish Bar Associations (TBB) has filed a petition asking the county to overturn the Twitter ban, according to Turkey's Hurriyet Daily News. Twitter has also hired an attorney versed in cyberlaw to meet with Turkish officials to discuss a legal solution for ending the ban.

Despite Erdogan's vow to wipe out social networks, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan said he expects the ban to be temporary, Reuters reported. Facing legal pressure, financial worries, and the obvious ineffectiveness of the ban, Erdogan's government may have no choice but to turn the tap back on.

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Daily Roundup: Turkey bans Twitter, Peter Molyneux talks VR and more!

You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours -- all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.

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Twitter may indulge our vanity by showing view counts for tweets

Twitter isn't supposed to be a popularity contest, but let's be honest -- many of us get a little thrill from new favorites and followers. It may be a good thing, then, that Twitter is experimenting with view counts on tweets. While Twitter's ad partners have had access to this data for a while, the test lets regular social networkers (albeit just a handful) see how much interest there is in what they say. The company isn't commenting on the dry run, but we wouldn't assume that a full-scale launch is coming. While view counts might encourage participation after well-received posts, they could also crush the self-esteem of newcomers. Not everyone can attract as many eyeballs as a celebrity or a politician, after all.

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Turkish PM plugs Twitter DNS loophole, Facebook and YouTube could be blocked next

When Twitter went dark for users in Turkey earlier this week, it didn't take long for everyone to realize something was up. Prime Minister Erdoğan had reportedly threatened to pull the plug on the popular social network previously, before coming good on his word just hours later. The attempt to silence the platform, however, wasn't exactly well executed. People in the country were still able to send messages via SMS, and access was still available via the web by relatively simple means: using a VPN or by changing your PC's DNS settings. Today, it's reported that Erdoğan's attacks on the platform continue, with new reports suggesting that access to the DNS loophole being blocked.

The Turkish leader has also allegedly addressed the San Francisco firm directly, asking it to appoint a local representative, and to block specific content (that which it deems "prejudiced") at his government's request. Erdoğan has also said that other social networks such as Facebook and YouTube are at risk of being taken down too, in an effort to squash leaks and opinions he evidently thinks might harm his party in forthcoming local elections. 0 Comments Share

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Twitter now shows you video previews inside its mobile apps

Checking out a linked video from within Twitter's official mobile apps is frequently a clumsy process, but it's about to get a lot smoother. The social network has started rolling out simple in-line video previews on both its Android and iOS apps. If you've received the upgrade, you'll see thumbnails of clips in your timeline; all you have to do is tap them to watch the footage from within the Twitter app. The move is no doubt meant to drive up views of promoted videos, but we won't mind if it helps us catch up on cat videos during our daily commutes.

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Turkey bans Twitter but users can still tweet via SMS

Turkey has joined the ranks of Iran, Egypt and others who have blocked access to Twitter at one point or another. Now, anyone in Turkey who tries to go to the website is redirected to a statement from the country's telecommunications regulator instead. A Turkish journalist told The Daily Dot that the outage started just after Thursday midnight and gradually spread out, depending on users' internet providers. It looks like the government didn't block the microblogging site's SMS service, though, because Twitter's Policy account just reminded Avea and Vodafone users that they can text START to 2444, while Turkcell subscribers can text START to 2555. But, why was Twitter banned in Turkey in the first place? Well, that's because some users posted voice recordings and documents, which allegedly reveal corruption within the Turkish prime minister's inner circle -- and that sure didn't sit well with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Hours before the blackout, Prime Minister Erdoğan threatened to shut Twitter down while speaking at a political rally to campaign for the March 30th local elections. He claimed the accusations are merely a smear campaign by his opponents and even dismissed other countries' criticisms: "The international community can say this, can say that. I don't care at all. Everyone will see how powerful the Republic of Turkey is." Erdogan's office later explained that Twitter was blocked in the country, because it failed take down the offending links after being issued four court orders. Considering the prime minister called social media "the worst menace to society" in the past, though, this development is not surprising in the least.

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Samsung ATIV SE press image leaks out on Twitter

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An alleged press photo of Samsung ATIV SE made the rounds on Twitter, courtesy of @evleaks. Previously known as Samsung Huron, the Windows Phone handset is bound for Verizon Wireless in the United States.

As you can see in the image above, the Samsung ATIV SE looks a lot like the Samsung Galaxy S4. There is no word on the specs of the upcoming smartphone just yet, though past rumors suggest that the ATIV SE will pack 1080p display (likely the same 5� unit as the one found in the Samsung Galaxy S4) and 13MP main camera.

There are no details on pricing and availability of the Samsung ATIV SE just yet. We doubt it will be a long wait before the smartphone joins the Nokia Lumia Icon in Verizon�s Windows Phone ranks.

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Reply2014-03-16 16:26bJb3JaniI hope this model (ATIV SE) Samsung new camera sensor,what is now new Samsung Galaxy S5!!!.

Reply2014-03-16 14:146qxntaniNow this one looks nice: I have always hoped to have a Nokia Android Flagship available, and a Samsung Windows Phone one: so we can compare them, have the opportunity to choose and decide for the best!!!

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Twitter accidentally mass-resets user passwords, blames 'system error'

Don't freak out, your Twitter account wasn't hacked. Well, probably. Many users were summarily locked out of their Twitter account on Monday evening, and were then sent an email requesting that they reset their password. However, it wasn't nefarious hackers or bots, but a system error. Twitter has released a statement, saying that it had "unintentionally sent some password reset notices tonight due to a system error." According to Recode, the error affected less than one percent of Twitter users. If you're an unlucky one-percenter, you should be able to reclaim access after you've updated your password.

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Funny, I Don’t Feel All That Fatigued With Twitter

In a recent piece in The New York Times, Jenna Wortham says she’s becoming fatigued with Twitter. Basically, she uses all the Twitter discussion around Justin Bieber’s arrest as a springboard for a broader argument about how the service has become less about finding useful, relevant information and more about competing for attention.

As you’d expect, the piece saw its share of praise and criticism. The most common critique seems to be some variant of, “Dude, just unfollow people who are annoying” but as Wortham and others have noted, that’s easier said than done, because it can be embarrassing or awkward to unfollow someone, even if you’re really tired of their tweets.

There’s another reason why the “just unfollow” argument falls a little flat for me. Wortham is, I think, careful to use the word “we”, particularly in the article’s best passage:

It feels as if we’re all trying to be a cheeky guest on a late-night show, a reality show contestant or a toddler with a tiara on Twitter — delivering the performance of a lifetime, via a hot, rapid-fire string of commentary, GIFs or responses that help us stand out from the crowd. We’re sold on the idea that if we’re good enough, it could be our ticket to success, landing us a fleeting spot in a round-up on BuzzFeed or The Huffington Post, or at best, a writing gig. But more often than not, it translates to standing on a collective soapbox, elbowing each other for room, in the hopes of being credited with delivering the cleverest one-liner or reaction. Much of that ensues in hilarity. Perhaps an equal amount ensues in exhaustion.

In the ensuing discussion, “we” seemed to get transformed into “other people” — sure, Jenna, other people can be annoying on Twitter, so why don’t you unfollow them? The default assumption that it must be other people who are Doing It Wrong on Twitter is … interesting.

Personally, I found the article valuable because I immediately recognized the behavior that Wortham was talking about, and not just in other people, but in myself. I suspect that my default mode on seeing a broader conversation on Twitter is, “How can I say something funny so that everyone will talk about meeeeeee?” (Note also that Wortham isn’t condemning this behavior outright — she admits that it can be entertaining, but also exhausting.)

So as a description of personal experience, I found Wortham’s words to be a valuable reminder to try, at least, to be less self-promotional and less self-absorbed.

On the other hand, as a broader description of “Twitter’s Achilles’ heel” I found the article to be less convincing. As others have noted, Wortham is a reporter who follows nearly 4,000 people and has more than 500,000 followers, so her experience is almost certainly atypical. She actually addresses this in the article itself, arguing, “I think the number of followers you have is often irrelevant,” but I’m dubious. With my own much smaller Twitter following, the dynamics changed as my audience grew, even if the change wasn’t quite as dramatic as I’d expected, and ditto the amount of noise as I started follow more people.

Yes, Wortham is absolutely making some very interesting anecdotal points, but her piece suffers in my eyes from trying to transform those points into a Big Idea. Has Twitter become less informative and more self-promotional? In my experience, it has always been a mix, and I’m not sure that mix has changed all that significantly. But again, we’re just mashing random pieces of personal experience together and pretending it means something about the company as a whole. That way lies madness. (And by “madness” I mean “asking teenagers what they think about Facebook“.)

But hey, since we’re sharing about anecdotal evidence, I will offer this: Where did I first hear about Wortham’s article? And where did I first see most of the ideas, pro and con, expressed in this post? On Twitter, of course.

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Twitter Also Considered PayPal For Its Square-Market Competitor

Twitter, now a listed company with more public accountability for how it makes money, has put the bulk of its chips down on generating revenue from advertising. But another area it appears to be exploring is commerce — using its platform not just to help spread the word about brands, but to help people buy from them, too.

Earlier today, Recode published a story about how Twitter is working on a commerce platform. It’s something that we have heard about for a while, too, along with a few more details:

Twitter is looking at building a marketplace on its platform that is similar to what Square offers in the Square Market, with listings for goods across different categories. “They’re working on a concept similar to Square,” is how one source described it. (Yes, the same Square where Twitter’s chairman Jack Dorsey is the CEO. But to be fair, it doesn’t sound like it would compete; just that this is a model for it.)

It’s not completely clear, but it sounds like marketplace may exist in a standalone format but also on Twitter’s main river. “They want to partner with bigger retailers and have check out cards on the platform, instead of just hashtag commerce,” said another source.

Hashtag commerce is a reference to some of the efforts that have existed on Twitter up to now, which use hashtags to trigger purchases (as pioneered by companies like Chirpify) or discounts (as it did with American Express in February 2013).

From what we understand, Twitter would provide the “storefront” for the service, as it were, but not the commerce backend.

“They say they don’t want to handle the whole commerce side of things,” is how one source put it to us. Recode reports that Twitter has been talking to Stripe. We have heard that, too, along with another major player in payment processing: PayPal. It’s not clear if PayPal is still in the picture. Neither Stripe nor PayPal, nor Twitter, returned requests for comment.

Along with ex-Ticketmaster CEO Nathan Hubbard, who was named head of commerce at Twitter in August, there have been other hires as well who are focused on building out the commerce solution.

One key person is Tarun Jain, both an ex-Googler and ex-Microsoftie. We hear he has been talking with startups and entrepreneurs that work in the commerce/payments space, and if you go to his profile on AngelList, you can see that he has also followed a number of them. Whether that has been for potential acquisitions or partnerships, or just for his personal interest, is not clear.

On the subject of Twitter partnering with commerce companies, this would make some sense, if you think about how Twitter built out its wider audience by way of developer-friendly APIs that helped seed the service in a number of third-party apps.

As for why Twitter may be moving ahead on a commerce effort, this is perhaps inevitable. The company as it is today is based on advertising as its main revenue stream. Adding commerce would be a way for Twitter to demonstrate to the market that it is not a one-trick pony, but a true platform for people to transact, not just in ideas and news but money, too.

But whether it will succeed is a different question. Another social network that has made efforts in commerce is Facebook, but today its payments business accounts for less than 11 percent of revenues – $218 million out of $2.016 billion of sales in Q3 2013.

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Researchers turn to Twitter in the search for time travelers

Whether or not time travel is even physically possible remains to be seen. But researchers at Michigan Technological University have already started scouring the internet for evidence that we've been visited by tourists from the future. The theory is that anyone who has moved backwards through space-time may have left their mark by tweeting, updating Facebook or posting on Google

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Sorry Neil Gaiman fans, he's taking a Twitter break

Neil Gaiman at the San Diego Comic-Con 2013.

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Author Neil Gaiman will temporarily bid adieu to his millions of followers on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and Google

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The Twitter NYSE Honeymoon Is Over As Stock Price Takes Another Nosedive

Today at market opening, Twitter shares (NYSE:TWTR) dropped once again. Shares were at $60.27, down 5.46 percent compared to Friday’s closing price of $63.75. This nosedive marks the end of the honeymoon between Twitter and the NYSE as many analysts stated that shares are overpriced. Until now, the stock held strong amid those reports, but that seems to be coming to an end.

It is not the first drop as shares were already down 13 percent on Friday, shaving $5 billion off Twitter’s market capitalization. It was a big correction of Thursday’s good performance — on Thursday, shares popped 5 percent for no apparent reason.

Many analysts find that Twitter is an expensive company. With a market cap of $33.6 billion, the company has yet to turn a profit — analysts don’t expect to see any profit before 2015. But this pessimistic trend on the analyst’s side seems to be increasing. On Friday, Macquarie analyst Ben Schachter downgraded Twitter.

According to Bespoke Investment Group, the average price target stands at $44.27, around 37 percent below today’s trading price.

But why is the stock price dropping today? The Twitter IPO was a great sign for the entire tech industry. Private companies saw that the stock market could be friendly again with tech companies — and now, everyone wants to IPO.

When Twitter became a public company on November 7, the company priced its IPO at $26 a share. Shares popped 74 percent on that day. After this very good IPO performance, the stock price has been relatively flat.

Many commented that the IPO was underpriced on purpose to make a big splash on the NYSE. Leaving money on the table was a way to improve the longterm prospects and overall image. Shares are still up around 135 percent compared to the IPO price.

Yet, there was a recent turning point for Twitter shares. When the company introduced retargeted ads in early December, the advertising industry was very enthusiastic. Ads would soon be more relevant thanks to browser cookies and more user information. And shareholders voted with their wallets.

Shares went from $44.95 on December 6 to $73.31 on December 26. It represents a 63.1 percent increase, or a $15.7 billion increase in market capitalization. But it wasn’t sustainable on the long run. This 3-week honeymoon was great while it lasted, but it’s time to come back to reality.

Update at 9:45 am (ET): Shares are now down 7.22 percent to $59.15 a share.

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73% Of U.S. Adults Use Social Networks, Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top

The U.S. is edging ever closer to social media saturation, with the percentage of adults using multiple social networks to communicate with each other now at 73%, and — partly thanks to the rise of mobile apps — the number of people on multiple networks now at 42%, according to figures out today from the researchers at the Pew Research Center.

Facebook — the world’s largest social network with 1.19 billion users — remains the most popular in the U.S. as well, with 71% of U.S. adults on it. In other words, nearly all adults on any social network at all are using Facebook. That’s four percentage points up from last year’s 67%, Pew notes.

Moving down the ranks, there is a lot more wiggle room for the next-biggest network. LinkedIn — site that bills itself as the “professional” social network focused on networking, job hunting and professional information and news — is hanging on at the number-two social network, with 22% of U.S. adults using it — up 2% on last year. Close on its heels is Pinterest — which has vaulted over Twitter to number-three position with 21% usage.

Twitter — despite the different services that it has launched to increase engagement like Twitter Music other discovery services; and despite the increased attention around its IPO — has only grown by two percentage points to 18%. Hot on its heels is Instagram at 17%.

For these sites, which are constructed in large part around advertising-based business models, critical mass is crucial: you won’t visit a site if no one else is using it.

More to come.

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BlackBerry urges BB10 users to roll-back its glitchy Twitter app

After loads of BB10 user complaints, BlackBerry is pulling the latest Twitter update from its app market. Should you still need your 140-character fix however, the beleaguered smartphone maker has a solution: roll back to the application's previous version -- 10.2.1 -- via the simple step-by-step instructions posted on its blog. First, delete Twitter from your device. Then, open BlackBerry World, refresh it and search for the micro-blogging service by name. Voila, a (hopefully) stable app should appear. If anything, this proves that the QWERTY king listens to more than just those in its boardroom. So, the next time that you notice an app go wonky, speak up -- it likely won't be in vain.

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Twitter Adds In-App Notifications For Emergency Alerts System As Brazil And Australia Begin Supporting It

Twitter has just announced a couple of small but useful updates to its Twitter Alerts system, which allows participating organizations to send out notices to subscribing users about emergencies or disaster areas.

The alerts system gains the ability to pop up an in-app notification inside of Twitter’s apps today, utilizing the same pop-up ‘toast’ notifications that its new apps use for mentions and retweets. The notifications are red instead of blue and will only display if you’ve subscribed to an organization’s alert system.

Twitter says that you can now also subscribe to Alerts as notifications inside its iOS and Android apps by visiting an organization’s profile and tapping the bell icon. 

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Nielsen: Instagram bigger than Twitter on mobile in 2013

Analytics firm finds that the photo and video-sharing app has an average monthly smartphone audience of 32 million, compared with Twitter's 30.8 million.

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