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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."
It is entirely possible that most people don't give a flying fuck and censorship has nothing to do with it.
When Wikileaks releases something that actually is newsworthy rather than rather than being the worlds drama queen, then people might care, but so far all we have is wikileaks telling us their going to change the world with their NEXT release ... after every dribbling bits of 'leaks' the let slip out.
It also might help if they started to release things that were pretty much verbatim copies of what you can get via a Freedom of Information Act request.
The only people who care about Wikileaks are irrational people who want to rage against the machine and 'change the world'. Hell, even the majority of people that work with wikileaks think Assange is turning it into something of an utterly retarded step child
After you cry wolf several times, people stop giving a shit.
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Twitter, like Google, has been close to Obama. Wikileaks is making the Obama Administration (especially Hillary Clinton) look really bad both through the release of what was in those cables and their inability to "deal with" Wikileaks.
This is only slightly less retarded than asking why the mainstream media tends to run interference for Democrats, spinning everything they do in a positive light even if it's something that would have a Republican hanging from a cross on capitol hill.
Or is Fox News not mainstream?
Since when does Glen Beck run interference for the Democrats?
I bet you are a teabagger, you got their talent for twisting the universe.
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Do a Google search. A decent looking search result shows up on the first page for "Obama Twitter connections."
Unless you are citing a specific study, in this day and age of good search engines, demanding "citations" for general topics is a form of trolling. It says "I'm too fucky lazy to do a 5 sec Google search."