Twitter and its dedicated army of users may be getting the last laugh-staging a "digital coup" after Turkey's prime minister- a heavy Twitter user himself- blocked the social media site.
The Twitter ban came ahead of bitterly contested elections. Tech-savvy Turks- including the country's own President- quickly found a workaround- with a little help from Twitter itself.
Mashable's Lance Ulanoff:
SOUNDBITE: LANCE ULANOFF, EDITOR-AT-LARGE AND CHIEF CORRESPONDENT, MASHABLE (ENGLISH) SAYING:
"The really fascinating thing now what they are doing is they are spray painting on walls the DNS changes you need to make to re-access Twitter. I mean that is how the public has changed. That is how tech savvy people have become."
The hashtag #TwitterisblockedinTurkey among the top trending hashtags in the world.
The ban came after Twitter ignored requests to remove content related to a political scandal.
But while this incident likely won't impact Twitter's bo
