Twitter has claimed it is not deliberately preventing WikiLeaks from trending on the social networking site and tried to explain why it is not appearing.

      The release of some 250,000 US diplomatic cables by the whistle-blowing website last month has dominated the news agenda for weeks.

     Users of Twitter have tweeted links to the leaks and discussed the cables almost constantly since the initial release on November 28.

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      However, at the same time other sites, such as Amazon, PayPal, Mastercard and Visa, appeared to be coming under intense pressure from the US government to cut ties to WikiLeaks, Twitter was attacked for apparently preventing the hashtags #wikieaks and #cablegate from trending.

      The mico-blogging site has denied such activity and on December 8 attempted to explain why WikiLeaks may not be shown as one of the top trending topics.

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      ‘This week, people are wondering about WikiLeaks, with some asking if Twitter has blocked #wikileaks, #cablegate or other related topics from appearing in the list of top Trends,’ a post on Twitter’s official blog declared.

      ‘The answer: Absolutely not. In fact, some of these terms, including #wikileaks and #cablegate, have previously trended either worldwide or in specific locations.’

      The post went on to explain that Twitter trends are ‘automatically generated by an algorithm that attempts to identify topics that are being talked about more right now than they were previously’.

      ‘The Trends list is designed to help people discover the 'most breaking' breaking news from across the world, in real-time. The Trends list captures the hottest emerging topics, not just what’s most popular. Put another way, Twitter favours novelty over popularity.’ the blog added.

      ‘Sometimes a topic doesn’t break into the Trends list because its popularity isn’t as widespread as people believe. And, sometimes, popular terms don’t make the Trends list because the velocity of conversation isn’t increasing quickly enough, relative to the baseline level of conversation happening on an average day; this is what happened with #wikileaks this week.’

      Twitter claims more than 95 million Tweets are now sent every day on the site.

      Earlier this week, hackers attacked Mastercard and Visa’s websites, claiming they were taking revenge on organisations now seen as enemies of WikiLeaks after the credit card companies banned donations to the whistle-blowing site.

      ‘Operation Payback’ has also threatened to take down Twitter over the trending controversy.

Source from Metro.co.uk

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