Re: <nettime> Twitter fails to jump to Dept of State's defence.

[Paul Keller <pk {AT} kein.org>]

see here: 
http://gawker.com/5539716/why-justin-bieber-disappeared-from-twitters-trending-topics

also there seems to be a rule that a username cannot be trending (hence the #cablegate hashtag) /paul

On 5 Dec 2010, at 12:54 PM, Leigh Blackall wrote:

> At more than 120 tweets a minute, and having sustained this rate for more
> than 4 days now, I'd like to know why #WIkileaks has not yet been listed by
> Twitter as "trending".


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