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		<title>Shiny new features!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, isn’t this exciting. We’ve just added in one of the many new features that you’ll see popping up on FestBuzz over the next few weeks!
What have we done? Well, in case you’re not quite as — shall we say — familiar with the site as we are, a hint: begins with a t and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, isn’t this exciting. We’ve just added in one of the <em>many</em> new features that you’ll see popping up on <a href="http://www.festbuzz.com">FestBuzz</a> over the next few weeks!</p>
<p>What have we done? Well, in case you’re not quite as — shall we say — <em>familiar </em>with the site as we are, a hint: begins with a t and ends with a weet. Yup, that’s right — <strong>tweets are now live</strong>! You can see from the home page that some shows are already attracting a number of tweets, though we’ve stripped out retweets for now to give a less spammy overview. (However, we still count them, ‘cos being retweeted counts for <em>something</em> in our book…)</p>
<p>Now, before you get pernickety, a side note; we’ve got everything on what we like to call <em>safe mode</em> for now, as the tweets start to flow in, so our data gnomes can keep an eye on things and get the system all perfect. This means we’re being particularly careful about matching tweets to shows right now; we’ll loosen the filters up as time marches on.</p>
<p>However, we’d like to hear from you if there are any glaring errors or flaws, obviously!</p>
<p>What can you expect to see next? Well, that’s partly up to the gnomes. Pesky things. However, one of them was heard muttering loudly about star ratings, and another has been repeating the word ‘widget’ over and over in his sleep, so…</p>
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