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Tuesday, April 01, 2014

The Turkish Tweet: Can It Really Be Stopped? | Jason Boucher

The Turkish Tweet: Can It Really Be Stopped?
Posted: 04/01/2014 12:39 pm EDT Updated: 04/01/2014 12:59 pm EDT

Thanks to Miley Cyrus, we all know about twerking, but do you know the definition of 'twurking?' It's a new word I just created about 2 minutes before sitting down to write today's blog post... 'Twurking' is when you illegally send a tweet from within Turkey, a country that has banned the use of Twitter (and most recently YouTube). But why? According to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan,"Social media is the greatest threat to society."

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