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03-21-2014, 09:24 PM
1.2 Million Tweets Sent in Turkey, Despite Ban
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They really are occupying Twitter.
One day after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan an**unced an attempt to "eradicate" Twitter, Turkish users have employed SMS, DNS, VPN and Tor to send over one million tweets in defiance of the ban.
“We will eradicate Twitter,” Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had said at a campaign rally on Thursday (http://mashable.com/2014/03/20/twitter-turkey-blocked/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss). “I don’t care what the international community says. Everyone will witness the power of the Turkish Republic.” Some say the ban is an attempt (https://hameed.nwar.uk/vb/%E2%80%9Chttp://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2014/03/21/streisand-effect-takes-hold-as-turkey-bans-twitter/%E2%80%9C) to stem the flow of corruption allegations that have spread on Twitter
But if silencing Twitter was the Turkish government's goal, it clearly hasn't gone as planned. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/21/turkey-twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
More about Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Turkey (http://mashable.com/category/turkey/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Us World (http://mashable.com/us-world/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and World (http://mashable.com/world/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/GchlqDPtFYI
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They really are occupying Twitter.
One day after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan an**unced an attempt to "eradicate" Twitter, Turkish users have employed SMS, DNS, VPN and Tor to send over one million tweets in defiance of the ban.
“We will eradicate Twitter,” Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had said at a campaign rally on Thursday (http://mashable.com/2014/03/20/twitter-turkey-blocked/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss). “I don’t care what the international community says. Everyone will witness the power of the Turkish Republic.” Some say the ban is an attempt (https://hameed.nwar.uk/vb/%E2%80%9Chttp://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2014/03/21/streisand-effect-takes-hold-as-turkey-bans-twitter/%E2%80%9C) to stem the flow of corruption allegations that have spread on Twitter
But if silencing Twitter was the Turkish government's goal, it clearly hasn't gone as planned. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/21/turkey-twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
More about Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Turkey (http://mashable.com/category/turkey/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Us World (http://mashable.com/us-world/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and World (http://mashable.com/world/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/GchlqDPtFYI