Some twitter users in Turkey are unable to access the Twitter.com website. Instead, they're being redirected to a statement by Turkey's telecommunications regulator.
The statement cites a court order to apply "protection measures" on the site.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed he would "wipe out Twitter" after allegations of corruption in his inner circle emerged on the microblogging site.
Erdogan said on Thursday: "I don't care what the international community says at all. Everyone will see the power of the Turkish Republic."
His office said the microblogging service had not responded after Turkey ruled it should remove some links. Hence the shutdown.
Luckily, there are some ways around the block. In Istanbul, people have taken to graffitiing DNS addresses on the walls.
Another way is by using a VPN to hide your location. ZenMate, a security and privacy extension for the Google Chrome browser, has seen a recent surge in users because of the ban in Turkey.
"We have seen 25,000 visitors from Turkey to the Chrome store in the last 12 hours," said ZenMate co-founder Simon Specka. "People expect and demand a free and accessible internet wherever they are, and they will always find products that can help them achieve this."
Turkey has about 10 million Twitter users. The country previously banned YouTube after the site hosted videos deemed insulting to the nation's founder. The YouTube ban lasted for two years, and was lifted in 2010.
The statement cites a court order to apply "protection measures" on the site.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed he would "wipe out Twitter" after allegations of corruption in his inner circle emerged on the microblogging site.
Erdogan said on Thursday: "I don't care what the international community says at all. Everyone will see the power of the Turkish Republic."
His office said the microblogging service had not responded after Turkey ruled it should remove some links. Hence the shutdown.
Luckily, there are some ways around the block. In Istanbul, people have taken to graffitiing DNS addresses on the walls.
Another way is by using a VPN to hide your location. ZenMate, a security and privacy extension for the Google Chrome browser, has seen a recent surge in users because of the ban in Turkey.
"We have seen 25,000 visitors from Turkey to the Chrome store in the last 12 hours," said ZenMate co-founder Simon Specka. "People expect and demand a free and accessible internet wherever they are, and they will always find products that can help them achieve this."
Turkey has about 10 million Twitter users. The country previously banned YouTube after the site hosted videos deemed insulting to the nation's founder. The YouTube ban lasted for two years, and was lifted in 2010.
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