Twitter reacts to Australia's internet filter

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    Date: 
    15 December 2009

    Analysing tweets is a difficult, and potentially futile process, as hundreds of tweets on a trending topic can appear every minute. That said, it's not difficult to gauge the online opinion to the government's announcement of "all systems go for the blacklist. " Currently, #nocleanfeed is a trending topic, in other words it's a popular topic not just in Australia but in the worldwide Tweetverse.

    Popular Australian comedian Chas Licciardello (@ChasLicc) from The Chaser tweeted "After the Govt censors the Internet how will we be able to describe all the acts that should be done to Conroy?". Others were less comedic and more direct, using either a variety of expletives to describe the move, or simply, in the case of @brittinboots, "ugh".