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Is Twitter Censoring Wikileaks Trends?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the or-just-sick-of-it dept.

comforteagle writes "There are suspicions coming to the surface this morning that Twitter may be censoring WikiLeaks-related tweets from forming a trending topic. Why is still unclear at this point, as during Iranian protests a short while ago Twitter appeared to be in the fray of helping to spread the word. As of this morning it appears that Twitter may have some explaining to do. One of Twitter's engineers has chimed in over the weekend, but some aren't convinced."

3 of 191 comments (clear)

  1. Justin Bieber by SimonTheSoundMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Perhaps that so many people are talking about wikileaks, it has stopped trending. Just like what was required for Justin Bieber.

  2. The obvious solution... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obviously, everybody should just obsessively tweet #heilwhale until the problem resolves itself.

    Extra credit will, naturally, be awarded for terrifying photochops of the failwhale with Chertoff's skull-like face...

  3. God dammit by Dunbal · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is all so fucked up, we should all go back to basic internet principles. The internet should not be used for anything other than porn.

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    Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.