Monday 3 October 2011

Is Twitter blocking Occupy Wall Street from trending in the USA?

Occupy Wall Street is trending everywhere on Twitter, except in the United States:

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Nothing to see here. Literally.

Update: Twitter says no:

Not so, says Twitter?s Carolyn Penner, who pointed us to this blog post, written after people made the same speculation about the #wikileaks tag, which explains that Twitter?s trending topics are based on what?s breaking out rather than what?s popular. ?Twitter Trends are automatically generated by an algorithm that attempts to identify topics that are being talked about more right now than they were previously,? it explains.


Source: http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/wxKhNeJqB80/-Is-Twitter-blocking-Occupy-Wall-Street-from-trending-in-the-USA

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