Twitterverse outs companies that gagged UK press

By Daniel Farey-Jones, brandrepublic.com, 13 October 2009, 02:10PM

LONDON - The power of Twitter to spread news despite curbs on mainstream media was shown today when law firm Carter Ruck and its obscure oil trading firm client Trafigura were pushed to the top of the microblogging site's trending topics list.

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