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July 6, 2009
Forget Google Bombing, Twitter Twombing Is In
Seems a new game is being played on the big Twitter board - bombing the hashmarks and grabbing the top of Twitter Trends. Over the weekend a crew of merry pranksters grabbed the top listing for #gorillapenis.
In a power play using social media - the flooding of Twitter was a great example of why what is considered important should not just be determined by anonymous hands up.
Operation Shitter the action was called and came along with a rather graphic graffiti drawing over the Twitter logo.
Not as clever as the Google bomb for GW Bush and miserable failure - this one even had instructions after your accounts were banned. Definitely a throw away effort - but would like to know what their intent was!
Posted by Frank Watson on July 6, 2009 1:00 AM
Comments
John Scott Cothill July 8, 2009 8:40 AM
Not new. We've been doing this with great success for months now; http://www.blink182.co.uk/index.php/latest-news/band/blink182day-sunday-remember-to-eat-sleep-blink/ within our community.
It is certainly harder to succeed these days now that more people are, as you call it, Twombing.