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Twitter's Turkey hit exposes vulnerability

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Twitter's Turkey hit exposes vulnerability

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51 Views • Mar 21, 2014

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Twitter and its dedicated army of users may be getting the last laugh-staging a "digital coup" after Turkey's prime minister- a heavy Twitter user himself- blocked the social media site.

The Twitter ban came ahead of bitterly contested elections. Tech-savvy Turks- including the country's own President- quickly found a workaround- with a little help from Twitter itself.

Mashable's Lance Ulanoff:

SOUNDBITE: LANCE ULANOFF, EDITOR-AT-LARGE AND CHIEF CORRESPONDENT, MASHABLE (ENGLISH) SAYING:

"The really fascinating thing now what they are doing is they are spray painting on walls the DNS changes you need to make to re-access Twitter. I mean that is how the public has changed. That is how tech savvy people have become."

The hashtag #TwitterisblockedinTurkey among the top trending hashtags in the world.

The ban came after Twitter ignored requests to remove content related to a political scandal.

But while this incident likely won't impact Twitter's bo