Twitter Sees Record Traffic After Unknown Welsh Footballer Sues Following Super-Injunction Leak

Pop quiz: who’s cleaning up on the back of the super-injunction farce?

(a) Unknown Welsh professional football who plays for Manchester United
(b) Lawyers, or
(c) Twitter

Well, okay, the lawyers are always cleaning up, but the real winner in all of this super-injunction malarkey seems to be Twitter itself.

New figures from Experian Hitwise suggest that Saturday was Twitter’s biggest ever day in the United Kingdom, with traffic up some 22% on the previous day. This follows enormous mainstream media coverage of Ryan Gigg’s an unnamed footballer’s attempt to sue Twitter to obtain the identity of those who breached

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