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Friday, March 21, 2014

Dear Dictators: Yes, Please Try to Block Twitter

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Supporters of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, shown here on March 6, might not be so keen if he can't even control Twitter
IMAGE: BURHAN OZBILICI/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mashable Op-Ed
This post reflects the opinions of the author and not necessarily those of Mashable as a publication.
So how was your day, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan? We're guessing it didn't go quite the way you intended. For example, several million fewer people on this planet didn't associate your name, if they knew it at all, with the word "dictator."
But that was the top worldwide trending hashtag for many long primetime hours on Twitter Thursday — #DictatorErdoğan. Suddenly, millions of non-Turks who didn't know your name went running to their Wikipedias to find out this latest globally-acknowledged bad guy was. Who was joining the elite club of North Korea, Iran, Syria and the other global pariahs who've tried blocking Twitter?