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100,000 an hour watch Maddy film; MISSING.


Byline: JON CLEMENTS

UP to 100,000 people an hour from 150 countries have watched the A Minute For Madeleine video, British child abuse investigators revealed yesterday.

The 60-second clip has been spread across blogs, social networking websites This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article.  and search engines since its release at midnight on Tuesday.

MySpace, Bebo, AOL and Yahoo! put links to the film, produced by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), formed in April 2006, is a UK cross agency and cross business department of the Serious Organised Crime Agency, which is tasked to work both nationally and internationally to bring online child sex offenders to the UK  on their homepages.

And celebrities including Jonathan Ross, Chris Evans, Philip Schofield and Alan Carr sent the link to their followers on Twitter A Web site and service that lets users send short text messages from their cellphones to a group of friends. Launched in 2006, Twitter (www.twitter.com) was designed for people to broadcast their current activities and thoughts. .

The film is targeted at whoever is covering for the people involved in Madeleine's disappearance from Praia da Luz Praia da Luz (pron. IPA /pɾaiɐdɐ'luʃ/, "Beach of Light") is a resort located about 6km from Lagos in the Algarve, Portugal. It is a holiday destination drawing visitors mainly from Portugal, Britain, France and Germany.  in May 2007.

Psychologists believe it will prick the conscience of anybody "keeping a terrible secret" about what happened.

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Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:Nov 5, 2009
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