Keith Olbermann’s 166,677 Twitter followers will have to get through the holidays without the MSNBC host’s show teases and sports trivia popping up in their Twitter feeds. The Countdown host today announced he would “suspend this account until this frenzy is stopped.” He’s even removed his profile picture and left the Twitter playground.
That frenzy involves an escalating Twitter campaign designed to get Olbermann to apologize for comments made during a Countdown segment involving the rape allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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