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, and Metro, and mentioned on Twitter by Stephen Fry, the BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones, and Jonathan Agnew (BBC cricket correspondent). The peak online viewing figures for the live broadcast were 2730, and 1780 listening to the Radio Youthology live audio broadcast.