{"id":454,"date":"2021-11-06T16:41:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T20:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derfmagazine.com\/home\/?p=454"},"modified":"2021-11-06T15:15:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T19:15:09","slug":"canadians-have-difficulty-finding-twittre-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derfmagazine.com\/home\/politics\/canadians-have-difficulty-finding-twittre-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians have difficulty finding Twittre online"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>TORONTO<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 The popular social networking website Twitter.com reported today low sign-up rates throughout Canada. Twitter founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone say Canadians often misspell&nbsp;<em>Twitter<\/em>&nbsp;by reversing the letters&nbsp;<em>-er<\/em>, similar to common Canadian misspellings of the words&nbsp;<em>theatre<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>centre<\/em>. Internet monitoring sources say the number of new Twitter users is growing rapidly in all English speaking countries except Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During it\u2019s initial launch, the popular social networking site, Friendster, also suffered a similar fate in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Founders of the photo sharing website Flickr.com said they anticipated this problem in Canada and decided to remove the letter \u2013e to reduce confusion for the spelling-challenged Canadian public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twitter Founder Evan Williams commented, \u201cIt\u2019s kind of hard for a website to be popular in a country where virtually 100% of the people appear to suffer from a basic spelling deficiency. The bottom line is Canadians are deprived of&nbsp;<em>tweeting<\/em>&nbsp;because the schools do a poor job of teaching English in Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canadian bloggers, known throughout Canada as&nbsp;<em>bloggres<\/em>, have been working hard to inform the Canadian public about the correct spelling of Twitter, but Canadians have been slow to adopt correct spelling practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO&nbsp;\u2013 The popular social networking website Twitter.com reported today low sign-up rates throughout Canada. Twitter founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone say Canadians often misspell&nbsp;Twitter&nbsp;by reversing the letters&nbsp;-er, similar to common Canadian misspellings of the words&nbsp;theatre&nbsp;and&nbsp;centre. 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