By Tan Weizhen

MORE than 150,000 Singaporean Internet users were left hanging, some in mid-word, when a highly popular online version of Scrabble on social networking site Facebook was shut down last weekend around the world.

According to the creators of Scrabulous, brothers Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla from India, Facebook took down the application following a request from Mattel on Aug 14.

Mattel had said that Scrabulous impinged on its copyright and trademark, being too similar to Scrabble.

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