A Twitter feed that alerted fans when spare Olympic tickets become available has been reinstated.
When the first events began, Olympic officials faced criticism over the number of seats remaining empty at events. One enthusiast, Adam Naisbitt, was so frustrated by the system that allowed games fans to buy up the spare tickets that he came up with his own alternative, the BBC reports.
Naisbitt set up a Twitter feed,@2012TicketAlert, which tweets information about spare tickets as soon as they are released. The feed leans on details gathered by his software from the official Olympics Web site, and has been used by hundreds of games fans to buy tickets.
However, the feed ran in difficulties on August 2 when the 2012 London Games' official ticket agency, Ticketmaster, updated its Web site. The move was an effort stop any ticket touts snapping up spare seats, and blocked external programs from accessing the site, according to the BBC.
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