"None of this affects me"

Great comment on slashdot:

‎"I'd really like to comment on this but I afraid of the consequences. I'd like to work someday and possibly travel to the US. I'd rather just pretend I don't know what's happening. Besides, none of this really affects me. It's about the past and from where I stand today nothing from any of the actions they have taken has changed my life in any way. At least now yet."

My email to a dude I know at Twitter about WikiLeaks

I care a lot about WikiLeaks. It is hard not to. I also care a lot about the fact that despite obvious volume of tweets on Twitter, with #wikileaks hashtag, they do not show up as "trending" Twitter's, making it seem like the subject is not relevant to a significant portion of the audience - which, as it happens, is in line with what the US government and its allied Powers That be would want you to believe.

I also happen to know a dude at Twitter (nobody important I assume, just a developer, but still - an insider).

So I emailed the Twitter guy with the following message:

[...] I would really like to know why #wikileaks (as well as related hashtags) is not trending on Twitter, even though it obviously generates a massive amount of tweets, probably order of magnitude higher that anything else on Twitter.

At this point I still refuse to believe that Twitter is a part of a larger conspiracy to shut up WikiLeaks, although I am coming alarmingly close, having in mind PayPal and Amazon fiasco (I am in process of cancelling my accounts with both of these). I am still more inclined to think that you have a problem with your trending algorithm. But - if you do not get your act together, and soon, your credibility as a social medium is going to suffer a lot. After all, your only advantage is being the place where people post stuff (tech itself is quite trivial, wouldn't you agree?). If you lose credibility, you lose users and they may never come back.

So, if you know anybody on the trend analysis team (or whatever team takes care of this functionality at Twitter), I would be grateful if you passed my concerns to them.