Its basic trolling to drive traffic to their site
and thereby increase ad revenue. Every time Twitter gets its knickers in a knot about it they increase the traffic to the site, thereby making stories like this more likely.
Deny them the oxygen of publicity and they'll give up because it will no longer be profitable.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 10:24,
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^This hard
I no longer click or get involved with the daily mail's twitter outcrys, as I'm sure they absolutely cream themselves whenever it happens.
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Sheriff John Bunnell https://twitter.com/thewonderfulgam, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 10:28,
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