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And it’s here: BringGoogleReaderBack.com.
The great thing about geeks is that they are smart, fast, and have the power to create stuff instantly. Like BringGoogleReaderBack.com, which was published just a few hours ago and already has 931 tweets. Or like KeepGoogleReader.com, a petition to keep Google Reader that already has 2,454 digital signatures.
Some may think that that it’s primarily the geeks who are upset, but Twitter sentiment is currently running 65 percent negative on the Google Reader closure, according to Sentiment140:
Geeks or not, perhaps Kyle Wild, the CEO of Keen_IO, put it best:
Google Reader had few users, but think about who they were: media mavens, tech press, and Google fanboys/fangirls. Bad segment to upset…
— Kyle Wild (@dorkitude) March 14, 2013
