The New York Times wrote a story about Florida State cornerback P.J. Williams getting traffic tickets for a hit-and-run incident and the preferential treatment of their players in general, but don’t bother searching because you won’t be able to find it. Here’s a shameless Sporting News plug for the story!
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After the Times tweeted it, Florida State fans and the phenomenon known as #FSUTwitter, quickly began marking the story as spam so Twitter would block the link from being shared.
It takes a lot of people marking something as spam for it to actually work, so if it is true it really does say a lot about the power of #FSUTwitter.
Twitter later fixed the issue.
