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[ad_1] Swifties, as Taylor Swift fans are known, received a crash course in anti-monopoly advocacy this week when the Ticketmaster portal crashed. Swifties, as Taylor Swift fans are known, received a crash course in anti-monopoly advocacy this week when the Ticketmaster portal for the singer's concert tickets crashed and caused hours-long delays.After waiting for hours only to fail to get tickets in a Nov. 15 online portal for select fans, some of them took to social media to vent en masse about the Beverly Hills-based company's oft-criticized market power and chokehold in live entertainment ticketing. Waves of their frustration intermixed with armchair antitrust analysis. Censure and ridicule of the company grew louder when Ticketmaster decided to cancel public ticket sales planned f...

[ad_1] Since Taylor Swift announced “The Eras Tour” earlier this month, it’s been something of a Hunger Games to land a ticket to one of her shows. Taylor Swift fans trying to score tickets to the singer's highly anticipated tour crashed the Ticketmaster website, with thousands reporting outages on the tracking site Downdetector.com Tuesday morning.Ticketmaster Fan Support tweeted that West Coast dates originally scheduled to go on sale at 10 a.m. local time would instead be taking place at 3 p.m., with queues opening 30 minutes before. “There has been unprecedented demand with millions showing up to buy tickets,” the company said in the tweet. “Hundreds of thousands of tickets have been sold.” Ticketmaster told Bloomberg that demand was more than twice the number of tickets availab...

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