The loss of @towerbridge from a cultural point of view

Sad news - the unofficial @towerbridge account has been shut down and replaced with an official one. Apparently a request for ownership of the account was made by someone representing the museum exhibition space based at the bridge (Tower Bridge Exhibition) and the existing account, along with all of its tweets has now gone. I won't go into the legal or moral issues - plenty of people are talking about that already - I want to bring a cultural angle to the debate. It was a cute mashup between the publicly published schedule for the bridge and a bot that turned that data into tweets created by Tom Armitage. A few lines of ruby code and some simple automation and you have a "Spime" - a word coined by science fiction author Bruce Sterling. It was a bridge that talked to you, and for me was the main example I would use when explaining the concept to someone new to it.