Is Twitter playing a part in the global Wikileaks gagging game?

Twitter and Wikileaks

It appears that Twitter is censoring Wikileaks Trends and not allowing them to show up in their “trends” list even though #wikileaks and #cablegate are mentioned over 300 times in less than a minute.

Also search results for #wikilleaks give you old results with huge gaps in the time line. Considering that they are mentioned 300 times per minute you do the math and tell us that something fishy isn’t happening behind the scenes.

To illustrate we took 2 screenshots. 1st screenshot is when we searched for wikileaks and it appears that there is an average 1 post about Wikileaks per hour. Then I run another search for Justin Bieber just to see if their timeline is working properly and as you can see their search is working perfectly well and it gives me “real time results”. If that is not proof enough then I don’t know what it is.

You might get another statement from Matt Graves about how it works and blah blah but even a blind person can see what Twitter is doing.

Twitter’s spokesperson Matt Graves released a statement saying:

“Twitter is not censoring #wikileaks, #cablegate or other related terms from the Trends list of trending topics.
There’s a number of factors that may come into play when seemingly popular terms don’t make the Trends list. Sometimes topics that are popular don’t break into the Trends list because the current velocity of conversation (volume of Tweets at a given moment) isn’t greater than in previous hours and days. Sometimes topics that are genuinely popular simply aren’t widespread enough to make the list of top Trends. And, on occasion, topics just aren’t as popular as people believe.”

Yeah right!

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