Twitter

Twitter is a social network where users can post "tweets" up to 140-characters in length. Twitter utilizes "hashtags", which are words or phrases starting with the pound symbol (#). GamerGate was started when Adam Baldwin used the hashtag #GamerGate in reference to one of Internet Aristocrat's Quinnspiracy Theory videos.

Twitter bans

 * On February 28, The Fine Young Capitalists were banned from Twitter for posting a link to their own video series on Gender Studies In Video Games.


 * On or before September 7, Twitter banned CameraLady for reporting on Gamergate. As of September 22, the account has not been restored.


 * On September 13, atheist commentator Thunderf00t was banned. As of September 22, the account has not been restored.


 * In mid-September, Twitter banned one of the accounts of video game commentator Press Fart To Continue.


 * In late October, there were many reports of twitter users being spam reported by bots when they posted with the #gamergate tag.