Incredibly, he replies to every single tweet, which no doubt helped to swell his legion of followers from 306, 000 after his win on Sunday to more than 460, 000 less than a day later.

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This time, there was no fourth-quarter comeback, no circus-like highlight reel to swell the bandwagon.

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And should they continue as they have recently and beat India, no doubt the game will continue to swell in both numbers and popularity.

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It is indifferently acted and in too much of a rush for quick hits to establish anything like the lull and swell of a real rave -- there's no undertow, no rapture, just a randomized string of highs and lows.

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The Cost understandably finds the band harboring more commercial ambitions than usual, even re-casting a pair of Swell Season songs as radio-friendly mid-tempo ballads, but no one involved has forgotten Hansard's odd ability to sound sweetly romantic, big-hearted, self-deprecating and emotionally stunted at the same time.

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