Egging Anon

Today, Anon lacks the talent and semi-cohesion it once boasted across the net, and its most recent online crusade is an embarrassing reminder. This is less a war than the hacker equivalent of egging someone’s house and then smoking weed behind a Denny’s.

– Gizmodo editor Sam Biddle, in an article entitled “Anonymous Is Losing Its War Against Israel”

Strange Tweets: What Happened to the Ahmed Jabari Assassination Video?

While Israel and Hamas trade missiles and tweets in rapid-fire succession, strange changes in a high-profile tweet raise questions about the nature of the microblogging service.
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YouTube Blocks Israeli Hamas Assassination Video — And Puts It Back Up Again

Israel wants the world to see a clip of its military at work. Google’s site took it down, but says that was a mistake. “Sometimes we make the wrong call.”
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Shocking Bieber Upset: Oil Spill Tops Twitter's 2010 Trends

Although World Cup tweeting caused record high volume and infrastructure demands on Twitter, the most-discussed topic on Twitter this year was actually the Gulf oil spill, said the San Francisco-based company tonight.