The words Digg , Key hddvd and DVD are among most popular on Twitter during the news breaking of the HD-DVD Hex key crack and related articles being withdrawn and blocked from Digg. The articles and key numbers have since been restored to Digg in only what is an assumed attempt at re-gaining the loyalty of it's democratic readership.

A picture is worth a thousand words. Here is a picture from the Twitterverse site, which tracks popular words on Twitter.

btw.  found some other interesting scandals within this news.  One was a video of 3 US service men getting "sniped' in Iraq and the second is a scandal of major proportions to do with the US Coast Guard and the mess up of portions of $24B contracts.   

This has been news for a week or so now but J. Angelo Racoma has an article on the subject, along with Steve Rubel's version on what happened. Good to see that the real story come out, Steve shouldn't be dragged through the coals over a simple tweet that was really saying that he doesn't read the paper version of the Mag, (but he does read the online version, RSS feeds, links back to their articles and links back to their sister mag's articles too.). It really was just a misunderstanding due to the brief nature of the 140 character "tweets" on Twitter.

This doesn't necessarily just relate to Twitter, Steve or PC mag. It relates in general and brings up a wider topic to all companies and their policies (or lack of policies) for employee blogging, twittering, message boards, social networks and and any other outside communications by employees over the Internet. Although an individual's post on some obscure message board may not be intended to be the official view of his employer, it just may be taken that way, especially if it is left with the email domain of the employer.