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YouTube to shut down tomorrow for good with all content being deleted

article published on 31 March, 2013

Google has announced today that video sharing behemoth YouTube will be shutting down tomorrow, for good, with all content being deleted. Apparently, YouTube was really just an eight year long contest, and the best video of all-time will now be voted on by an expert panel of judges that includes famous viral video celebrities like Antoine Dodson and Charlie of "Charlie Bit My Finger." ... [ read the full article ]

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_ 		31. March 2013 @ 22:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If only
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defgod
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_ 		31. March 2013 @ 22:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Is this some kind of early April fools joke?
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Rebel11
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_ 		31. March 2013 @ 22:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by defgod:
 Is this some kind of early April fools joke?
Google does it every year lol
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TreePro
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_ 		31. March 2013 @ 22:29 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
How many will actually believe it?
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_ 		31. March 2013 @ 22:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
LoL Google...you really got me, yawn...
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LOL!
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JST1946
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Well I guess we will find out tomorrow if it is a bunch of B.S or not
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Wow this is probably the dumbest April's fool joke I have ever seen. It's most likely aimed at the idiots that believe those Facebook chain letters as well........

YouTube has a mind of it's own, there's no shutting it down....fail
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Justoneguy
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Anyone want to buy a bridge?
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Nice try!
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startrek7
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got me until I saw the date!
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Joe_1981
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I believed the headline for about a second, until I remembered it was April 1st. So, technically, I was fooled. lol
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lol:
#3 - YouTube.com
Global rank: 3
U.S. rank: 3
Last year's rank: 3

Global reach: 32.698%
Global pageviews: 4.0823%
Sites linking in: 3,198,073

Source: Alexa, as of August 2012
http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/most-popular-websites

Google April Fool's Day Pranks 2013 (15)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Go...aster_eggs#2013
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