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I really want to think that this is a technical error. "Israil" was another term that is broken in the search. It's now showing as trending for me. I'm hoping

• ComputerGuru 16y ago
  Actually, it's still broken. While it shows in the trending topics lists, try actually clicking on "Israil" and you get a technical error page: http://twitter.com/search?q=%C4%B0srail http://twitter.com/search?q=%C4%B0srail
  • rriepe 16y ago
    Yeah, the search is still broken. But at least it's showing now? It seems too inconsistent to be active censoring.
    • ComputerGuru 16y ago
      I don't know - I don't think "Israil" was being blocked from being a TT, at least, it wasn't on trendistic while not being on twitter. I think "inconsistency" and active censorship go hand-in-hand: you have to manually block certain topics, and so the ones you didn't catch slip through. And maybe you need to make it less than perfect to make sure you can always claim "technical difficulties." I just find it hard to believe that twitter's staff was working around the clock during the Iranian elections to make sure that everything kept going smooth, but right now it's been 12 or so hours and their search is broken for a similarly-important news story.
      • rriepe 16y ago
        I have to give Twitter more credit than that. Politics of the issue aside, censoring anything could seriously hurt Twitter. Even if we're cynical and we don't give them the benefit of a doubt integrity-wise, it's still a stupid move for them from a PR standpoint.