Twitterers have a message: Tomorrow, turn off the tweets.
Users like us of the social media site are planning a Twitter boycott to protest the company's new ability to censor tweets on a country-by-country basis.
Twitter announced Thursday that it can now block tweets, as well as individual accounts, from appearing to users in specific countries, and that it may use the feature to comply with governments' request to censor information. Before, Twitter could only block tweets and accounts globally.
Some users are calling on fellow Twitterers to silence their tweets on January 28 as a way of expressing their opposition to Twitter's plan. They are using the hashtag #TwitterBlackout #TwitterCensored to organize the boycott, and tweets tagged with the hashtag are rolling in at a clip of about 12 per minute.
We got #StopSOPA to trend now it's time to trend #TwitterCensored to protest. Use http://tinyurl.com/6tc8plf to tweet with the hash easy.
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Nice good western freedom in action, again...
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Not funny.
THE GROUP "ANONYMOUS' JUST ANNOUNCED IT WILL SHUT DOWN TWITTER JAN 3OTH
ReplyDeleteSAD, VERY SAD. WHO CARE'S ABOUT CRAPPY SITES LIKE TWIITER, FREEDOM OF SPEECH SHOULD BE BANNED OR CONTROLLED WITH STRINGENT RULES. WE AS A SPECIES DON'T DESERVE ANY KIND OF FREEDOM, UNTIL WE GREW UP, WE ARE LIKE CHILDREN WITH NO RULES OR PAPRENTS TO GUIDE US
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