The Singapore Twittersphere almost blew up last night. Here's what happened:

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asia.cnet.com 21 Nov '12, 8am

The Singapore Twittersphere almost blew up last night. Here's what happened:

Not an actual depiction of what happened in the Singapore Twittersphere last night. It all started with one tweet expressing her opinion about how she would not be tweeting in Singlish . Kay Hui, or @kayspace, who was the curator of the week for the @hellofrmSG Twitter account, drew plenty of heated responses from the account's followers. National pride in the creole language resulted in a wave of backlash against the curator, with some questioning her eligibility to curate the account. Modeled after the @sweden Twitter account, where a new person living in the country manages the account each week, the current @hellofrmSG curator's turn at the account quickly turned bad, according to her personal blog post on the matter . Furthermore, tweets criticized her lack of proper grammar despite her panning of Singlish as "bad English". @kayspace soon resorted to blocking follower...

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@kuekj » 22 Nov '12, 2pm
@nianymue hello from Singapore! nope, not the lack of curators, more from here: [link] @hellofrmSG @kixes
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