Tuesday, October 20 2009: Mexico’s #InternetNecesario (Internet [is a] necessity) makes into the Twitter’s Trends Topic List
#InternetNecesario (Internet [is a] necessity) is the No. 5 Trend Topic at Twitter (as of Tuesday, 20 October @ 02:21 AM) used by Mexican users to protest against government intentions to apply a 4% (now they say 2%) to all the telecommunications services which, obviously, includes Internet access services.
The hashtag (words preceded by a hash symbol [#]) surges from the “Internet Necesario” (”Internet [is a] necessity”) motto included in a blog post from Alejandro Pisanty (@apisanty) titled “Oposición a impuestos especiales a las telecomunicaciones y servicios de Internet” (”Opposition to special taxes for telecommunications and Internet services”).
Alejandro hits the nail right on the head when he writes:
In contradiction with the development of the Information Society, with society’s course to a Knowledge Society, in contradiction with a digital agenda to bring our society to an extended and distributed progress.
Free translation by me.
Of course, as a Mexican, I find very important to support this movement and I respectfully request from every one to use #InternetNecesario and tweet about the importance for Mexico on keeping low the population expenses on Telecommunications and Internet in order to reach progress.
Alejandro Pisanty is a Mexican Professional who blogs in Spanish language about Internet, Internet Governance, the National University of Mexico (UNAM) and University Rankings.
A brief history on how #InternetNecesario rised to Twitter’s Trend Topics List:
The Trending Topic was first tweeted by @uzz_tweet_es about 11:17 AM on Monday, 19 October (Mexico Time), supporting Alejandro’s blog post. Surprisingly, @uzz_tweet_es is a Twitter Account from Spain, about 7 hours ahead from Mexico and evidently not affected by Mexican Government’s plans. Thank you @uzz_tweet_es!
@uzz_tweet_es was very active in Twitter pushing the issue and #InternetNecesario started to receive gradually more and more attention and being used more and more during Monday. Alejandro were even much more active during all the day, advocating and explaining the issue to lots of people.
During the late afternoon, some users started to push the hashtag even more, noting the need to reach certain level of usage by the hour in order to appear in the Top Ten list of hashtags on Twitter Web Site. Finally, between 1:00 and 2:00 AM on Tuesday, 20 October #InternetNecesario appeared on the list. The accompanying image is a fragment from a screenshot I took from Twitter’s Web Site at 2:20 AM.
Please! Support #InternetNecesario! Thank you very much.
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A screen shot of the trends map a couple of hours ago: http://twitpic.com/m81×6
Dude,
Te puedes montar un poll o cualquier herramienta para ciudadanos votemos en contra del gravar Internet?
danke
Hola hj Barraza,
Consideré la posibilidad de instalar un poll pero supuse que habría esfuerzos más efectivos como el envío de peticiones formales. Te recomiendo mandes la tuya por medio de:
http://www.petitiononline.com/Intermex/petition.html