I have posted twice recently about my interest in the emergence of 4Chan. Most recently on its impact on Time Magazine's corporate bigwig list, and before that on how I'm testing it out.
Over the weekend 4Chan's community took a mini swipe at Twitter. Mashable has the lowdown on what happened:
"Internet pranksters, gathered around the popular anonymous Internet forum 4chan, have seemingly orchestrated an attack on Twitter creating a number of fake accounts and pushing the hashtag #gorillapenis to the trending topics.... CNET blogger Harrison Hoffman has linked to the Insurgency Wiki, which
is an “offense” in the eyes of the 4chan crowd, and therefore the page
that previously explained the details about the attack on Twitter is
now making fun of him..."
The issue is seen as a problem for Twitter, as stated in Mashable, and also a brief display of what happens over at 4Chan when it touches on another online community.
Thanks to Dom for the heads-up on this.
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