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Friday, January 20, 2012

The week the web changed Washington

The week the web changed Washington: Consider the following statistics:

162 million Wikipedia page views, with some 8 million visitors using an online form to look up the address of their Congressional representatives.
7 million signatures on Google's petition.
200,000+ signatures on the Progressive Change Campaign Committee petition.
30,000+ Craigslist users called Congress through the PCCC's website.
250,000+ people took action through the EFF's resources.
2.4 million+ SOPA-related tweets were sent between 12 a.m. and 4 p.m. on January 18.
140,000 phone calls made through Tumblr's platform.
Nearly 1,000 protesters outside New York's U.S. Senators' office in New York City.