Wavy Hair and Coleman Ranahan

This isn’t one of those “Twitter is dead” posts. Although it shall be something similar in tone.

Late Monday night, Occupy Boston was ripped apart by Boston PD and forced citizens who were peaceably assembled to disburse. No news media outlets were covering it, but some reporters from Boston were live-tweeting what was happening.

The whole event was transfixed on Twitter, because of the main media’s incompetence to cover what is real news happening in places like Wall Street, Boston, Seattle, and Chicago.

But something scary emerged from Twitter, covering up and denying hash tags. #OccupyBoston was nowhere to be seen on the trending topics list. You could still click on the hash tag to display the list of tweets under the hash tag, but no trend.

Amazing to me, that Twitter would happily support the revolutions happening around the world, but when movements like Occupy Boston are happening inside the United States, Twitter cowers and blocks it from being on the Trending List. People had to game the system by coming up with different hash tags like #bostonPD to get people to notice.

Twitter has shown its true colors. The once beautiful thing that Twitter represented, the freedom of being able to get information out is easily being censored, and censored at an alarming rate. Welcome to the true digital age.

Twitter will still have an impact on movements like this as long as people can game the official hash tags, but inevitably it will represent its own failure in the days to come. Linked In still works right?