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    Twitter works on technology to evade censors
    By John Gapper in Davos

    Published: January 27 2010 16:03 | Last updated: January 27 2010 19:32

    Twitter, the internet social network, is developing technology it hopes will prevent the Chinese and Iranian governments being able to censor its users.

    Evan Williams, the chief executive and co-founder of Twitter, which has been credited with helping anti-government protesters in Iran to organise resistance, said software developers were working on “interesting hacks” to stop any blocking by foreign governments.

    Mr Williams, speaking at the World Economic Forum, said he admired Google for its decision last month to confront China over censorship and cyberattacks on its service, but said Twitter was too small to take a similar stand.

    “We are partially blocked in China and other places and we were in Iran as well,” he said. “The most productive way to fight that is not by trying to engage China and other governments whose very being is against what we are about. I am hopeful there are technological ways around these barriers.”

    Mr Williams said Twitter had an advantage in evading government censors through operating as a network of internet and mobile applications, rather than as a single website. “Twitter is a network that is accessed in thousands of ways.”

    Mr Williams was among executives of social networks, including MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn, which were challenged in a debate in Davos to make a statement against censorship. He gave the clearest account of how his company intended to resist surveillance.

    Earlier this month, Google declared it was ending self-censorship of its Chinese language search engine in protest at what it said were attempts from China to hack into its networks, and those of other US technology companies.

    Mr Williams did not want to give details of the technology being developed in order to avoid giving clues to governments that wanted to block its service, which allows users to post updates of up to 140 characters to those who follow them. The company said the technology was being worked on by “third-party developers” rather than the company itself.
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