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."

Friday Was the Hot Day

[eldavojohn]

For Wikileaks trending. You can see here [trendistic.com] that Wikileaks was hot on Friday, not Sunday. Google Trends (for Google searches, not Tweets) actually heavily corresponds to this [google.com]. Further more, if you look at Google Trends, you'll note that the recent trending on Friday wasn't even half of what it peaked at during the Afghan war cable release. It might even be less than that edited journalist shooting video. After checking Google trends for Sunday, "wikileaks" wasn't in the top twenty. I'm checking other Twitter harvesting sites for trends and not seeing anything that would indicate that Sunday should have been a huge day for Wikileaks on Twitter.

By no means conclusive evidence one way or the other though.

More links to details

[teamhasnoi]

According to one of the commenters, this may be a result of adjusting the algorithms to git rid of endless "Bieber" related trends.

At what price Bieber Freedom?

If a forest of trees fall, but no one can report it, did it really happen?

Re:Wikileaks supporters, beware of the vigilantes.

[myowntrueself]

Which 'way of life' is "*THE* American" one?

The top 2% of the American population that control 90% of the wealth?

Or the bottom 50% who have zero assets?

This whole thing is hilarious.

Its almost as if one can see a prequel of Snowcrash playing out in real life!

Franchise America will be here soon :) Cognitive dissonance can, in others, be highly entertaining.

Re:Do you really have to ask "why?"

[rchh]

Twitter, like Google, has been close to Obama. [Citation Needed] Please refrain from saying something like this without actually backing it up.

Re:Why is everything a conspiracy?

[VShael]

That's ironic.
1) There's good evidence the CIA *are* behind it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27005.htm [informatio...house.info]

2) Elected officials (Joe Liberman) took credit for it
http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/01/amazon/ [techcrunch.com]
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/12/how_lieberman_got_amazon_to_drop_wikileaks.php [talkingpointsmemo.com]

Re:Why would you say that?

[dissy]

You are going to have them thinking you are a Wikileaks supporter.

And it is pretty obvious you are very very against the idea of anyone wanting to support or help wikileaks.

In the last thread alone, due to the fact you are 'Friend of a Friend', I saw 18 posts from you that I counted that had the exact same content. Pretty much the same content as this post. After the first 5 it became annoying trying to skip so many dupes in a row which was the only reason i noticed.

It's one thing to warn others of the dangers you might perceive to be true, but it's another for what you have been doing, which is being actively against any wikileaks support.

You can clearly do as you wish, but I highly suspect your motives of 'just warning others' at this point.

Re:Maybe no one actually cares anymore

[Urza9814]

They show that the highest levels of our government (Secretary of State) were actively aware and involved in knowingly kidnapping, toturing, and otherwise abusing a man they _knew_ to be innocent. That is not newsworthy? That is something we didn't already know about. I mean, we knew it happened, but we didn't know how far up it went.