[bagster]

they pulled the hashtag.

What? Twitter pulled #Obamagate?

How do they 'pull' a hashtag? I mean, anybody making a tweet can make any hashtag they want, am I right?

#DontGetTwitter

[Ymani Cricket]

There's a number of reasons. Peole started using #obamgate instead because of this rule (and other rules they apply):

“The Trends list is designed to help people discover the ‘most breaking’ breaking news from across the world, in real-time. The Trends list captures the hottest emerging topics, not just what’s most popular. Put another way, Twitter favors novelty over popularity…”

[Syncro]

They stopped it from trending

*poof*

[SERKIT]

No worries: #ObaMAGAte is alive and well.... just checked....