Those of you who use Twitter every day take it for granted...because the popular social networking site/tool has been banned by the Turkish government. But after a momentous ruling from the higher Turkish courts, the corrupt government will not get its wish, and the ban has been lifted!

According to TechEye, the Turkish government had decided to ban Twitter until after the general elections. The reason for the government's ban of the social networking site is because Turkish citizens have been talking about government corruption that has been going on surrounding the elections, and current administration is trying to silence the citizens from talking about it, as well as making it known worldwide.

A Turkish citizen, who remains unidentified, engaged in a Watergate-type story break -- audio recordings from the Turkish government, that very specifically exposed the corruption extant and rampant, were made public on Twitter.

But according to The UK Register, a court in the Turkish capital of Ankara has overturned the ban imposed by the government, doing so after complaints by journalists' unions and the country's Bar Association, representing its lawyers, that blocking Twitter contravened their "freedom of information and communication."

Although the Turkish court's ruling is still subject to appeal, it marks a step in the right direction in favor of freedom of speech.

Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables users to send and read short 140-character text messages, called "tweets". Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS, or mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco and has offices in New York City, Boston, San Antonio and Detroit. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass and by July 2006, the site was launched. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with 500 million registered users in 2012, who posted 340 million tweets per day. The service also handled 1.6 billion search queries per day. Twitter is now one of the ten most-visited websites, and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet."