ANKARA: Twitter went dark in Turkey on Thursday (Friday in Manila), just hours after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to “wipe out” the social network—one of several highlighting corruption allegations in his inner circle.

Twitter’s public policy team responded by saying on its official @policy feed that Turks could get around the block by tweeting through mobile telephone text services.

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