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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure you could classify the use of the prevalent terms in those tweets as homophobia. Words also evolve over time, I highly doubt those twits are implying that wikipedia prefers same-sex websites. We're seeing the evolution of words through generations, where in this context it now means 'sucks'. This is an inevitable outcome and we see it time and time again.

The conflation of gay as being both homosexual and stupid is a result of homophobia and continuing to use it as such is a conscious decision that marginalizes a group of people. Whether or not they outright intend it that way, they are using homophobic speech.

If you don't mind me asking, how old are you? (a broad range will do fine if you like). What's remarkable is that the word gay actually used to mean 'carefree' or 'happy'. Asserting that it's being used as homophobic speech is incorrect. Once again, the word is experiencing another semantic shift.

Re: SOPA/PIPA: More than 250k tweets / hr

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Others were mentioning before today that "Twitter should black out because it's one of the few services the people in the government use, so they would experience the impact of SOPA." Twitter is a sounding board for the internet, and I think by having it available, SOPA is getting much more attention than it would have gotten than if it was blacked out. 250k/hr regarding one topic sure is nothing to sneeze at!

Those messages would have come through tomorrow. And what is better: a few million tweets most of which are inarticulate or a single well presented page that EVERY TWITTER USER would read?

That depends, how much of Twitter's userbase uses the web clients?
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