How to access Twitter in Turkey - #TwitterisBlockedinTurkey
Mar 23, 2014
Twitter , the biggest Social Media platform used for vital communication is now banned in Turkey from the last few days, after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan promised to root out the social media service during an election rally this week with the help of a court order. “ Twitter and so on, we will root them out. The international community can say this or that – I don’t care. They will see the power of the Turkish Republic .” After the ban imposed on Twitter late on Thursday, millions of Turkey users began using Google’s DNS service to bypassing censorship, that briefly helped Turks stay connected to Twitter. Turkey Government is trying to close all the possible loopholes that had allowed users to circumvent the ban and finally today the authorities have also blocked the Google DNS service (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4), However the number of tweets jumped 138% in the last 24 Hours and almost 2.5 million tweets have been posted from the country after the ban imposed...
