Developers are coming up with new strategies to help Twitter evade censorship in countries like China and Iran, says the CEO of the popular micro-blogging service.
Evan Williams said programmers were working on "interesting hacks" to get around roadblocks erected by foreign governments.
“We are partially blocked in China and other places and we were in Iran as well,” he said as quoted by the Financial Times.
Instead of negotiating with governments that censor, "whose very being is against what we are about," Williams said he would rather find technological ways to get around such barriers.
He said he admired Google for standing up to China over its web censorship, but said Twitter was too small to adopt a similar strategy.
The company did not release details of the work, but said it was being done by third-party developers.
Williams said Twitter had an advantage over some other web-based media because it "is accessed in thousands of ways" through multiple internet and mobile applications.
Twitter played a key role in getting information out of Iran during anti-government protests there last year, while traditional media outlets were hobbled by government censorship.
JG
Iranian riot policemen pursue opposition supporters during protests in Tehran on December 27, 2009
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