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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Turkey Twitter Ban Is Trending? [Watch (HLS stream): Turkey Twitter Ban Is Trending?](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ntftQp3B.m3u8) (2:06)  _Published 2014-03-21. Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised a country-wide ban on Twitter. 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So what was the Internet's response to him [ UNKNOWN ] man instead of keeping himself and his country away from scrutiny following a corruption scandal that went viral Erdogan brought even more attention to himself As the Washington Post put it, Twitter exploded. There was even a hashtag # TwitterisblockedinTurkey that trended worldwide for several hours during prime time. Almost immediately after the site was shut down, many of Turkey's 10 million Twitter users found ways to get around the block. Even Turkey's president, Abdullah Gul, who is considered a political ally of the prime minister used Twitter to challenge the block. He tweeted the shutdown was unacceptable. The country is gearing up for an election at the end of March. Thursday night, a BBC reporter tweeted that about 17, 000 tweets per minute were streaming out of the country. And another Twitter user says that people were prepared with ways to get around the block. Here's how they're doing it. The Turkish government shut down Twitter from a local level. By requiring the country's Internet service providers, or ISPs, to dead- end the site for all Web traffic. But here's where the Internet steps in, to do what it does best, get a litle crafty. The first and easiest way for Turkish users to continue Tweeting is through SMS or text message. Twitter's own page gave instructions for how to set this up through different cell phone carriers. But another way is to change a device's DNS, or how it's IP address is read, which is a simple process. Google offers it's own DNS, and that's how many Turkish Twitter users are able to tweet. In fact, protesters have been painting the numbers for Google's DNS in Istanbul so everyone can take advantage of it. According to the Wall Street Journal the third major way to get around the block is to use a virtual private network or VPN that directs users through a non public channel. 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