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!
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