Last but not least: the social suicide of social media
The microblogging service Twitter has announced that it will block content in certain countries using a filter. Users are outraged and view the move as censorship and social suicide for Twitter.
Twitter wants to censor certain content in certain countries. If content violates the rules in one country, the tweeted post will be blocked - in other countries, however, with different rules and customs, the tweet should be readable. Twitter recently announced this new change and has brought its users to the barricades: the blocking is being decried as censorship and hashtags such as #TwitterCensored and strikes are intended to show the network that censorship is against the will of Twitter users. Forbes.com also headlines: "Twitter Commits Social Suicide". It remains to be seen how this discussion will end, who will delete their Twitter account and how much censorship will actually take place in the end. Werbewoche, at least, is still happily tweeting away: twitter.com/#!/AdvertisingWeek
