Is Twitter Censoring Wikileaks Trends?

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."

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Not the first time

[Sockatume]

I can't recall what it was, but Scienceblogs was atwitter with claims that Twitter was censoring a science/religion/something event that was being discussed. It turns out that (shock) people just weren't talking about it as incredibly frequently as they had been when it started trending.

Re:Friday Was the Hot Day

[Amorymeltzer]

The piece specifically talks about comparisons. All of the other idiotic nonsense that did trend didn't compare in level to #wikileaks. The direct link to one of the vastly more interesting ones, imo:

http://bubbloy.wordpress.com/2010/12/05/twitter-is-censoring-the-discussion-of-wikileaks/

No they aren't

[JamesP]

Blame Justin Bieber

What happened was... all the JB fans were skewing the trending topics by tweeting about him all the time.

So twitter changed TTs from being a measure of amount to a measure of growth (or derivative)

And I think wikileaks grew slower, hence no TTs.

Assange's personal bank account frozen

[Martin Spamer]

Swiss bank freezes Julian Assange's (personal) account