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“Basically, #amazonfail is the name for a brewing Internet shitstorm that started some time on Easter Sunday regarding Amazon. com’s sudden decision to blacklist any books with LGBT (QQI) content from appearing in best-seller lists or search results,” says tehdely on LiveJOURNAL, going on »»»
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"amazonfail" episode, is saying that the whole escapade was the ...
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"amazonfail" keyword is generating a dozen hits on Twitter's search page every couple of seconds.
All Things Digital 2009
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Because the #amazonfail meme on Twitter was about ascribing malice to an institution that has shown no history of such malice, based on a simple error, it is almost the definitive example of why "FAIL" sucks.
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But I think @amazonfail is a perfect example of what's wrong with "fail".
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Not that it's likely to trigger an #amazonfail tsunami of viral outrage, of course.
A puzzling misascription* L. Lee Lowe 2009
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We had the Easter weekend in Burgundy, which explains why I missed out on #amazonfail and similar events over the last few days but read plenty of books.
Pictures from Burgundy nwhyte 2009
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• Petition against Amazon's New Adult Policy (adding about 1000 persons an hour) • twitter storm regarding #amazonfail
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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We talked about racefail and amazonfail and one of us, who shall remain anonymous, decided that anything-fail eventually turns into anything-wank, because the people pushing the arguments around long after the dust has settled are wankers.
NLW SF Panel Wrapup joshenglish 2009
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But this time it was the Twitter microblogging service that led the way, with thousands of tweets linked by the tag ‘amazonfail’.
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