Twitter may not have as many friends in high places as its fans imagined. Robert Gibbs recently let slip that Twitter is blocked on White House computers.
This news seems a bit odd, considering that the BarackObama Twitter account was used so much prior to the election, and that it still gets the occasional update. There’s an official whitehouse account that sees a fair amount of action, as well.
Baidu Blocked By Major Chinese Sites
It appears that Baidu, the Chinese search giant, has hit a bit of a stumbling block. Some major portals and social networks in its home market have stopped the company’s spiders from indexing their sites.
Yoda Blocked From Facebook
If your name is Yoda, you may have trouble getting a Facebook account. At least one woman has had that problem. A Japanese woman named Hiroko Yoda tried multiple times to sign up for Facebook, but her requests were rejected. Why? According to Telegraph, Facebook says that the name "Yoda" is blacklisted to prevent users from pretending to be people they are not. In this case, it would obviously be Yoda of Star Wars fame.
Digg Blocked For “Bandwidth Theft”
It’s hard to find anybody to agree with the logic, and certainly the only people that appear to be writing about it have done so to heap ridicule and scorn, but (apparently) the same person to bring us WhyFirefoxIsBlocked.com has now introduced WhyDiggIsBlocked.com.
Craigslist Blocked By Cox Interactive
In case anyone may be wondering what a world without network neutrality may look like, it could resemble the “Server Not Found” pages seen by Cox Interactive customers trying to access the Craigslist classifieds site.
Gmail Blocked By Verizon Spam Filters
Several people reported having email sent from the Gmail accounts to Verizon customers bounce back to them by overly aggressive spam filters over the weekend. Google says the problem has been fixed, but Verizon has been very silent on the matter.
Are Your Emails Getting Blocked by AOL?
Could the world’s leader in interactive services be blocking your emails?
Why Google Blocked Scroogle
Do you remember Scroogle? Daniel Brandt, of Google-Watch.org, created Scroogle when he discovered that you could see pre-update results for search terms when you included “+ jibberish term” after your key term.