guard base in ukraine. turkey's government has blocked twitter after the prime minister vowed to eradicate the social media site. tayyip erdogan spoke out against twitter at a campaign rally. he says twitter ignored court orders to remove web links from the site. >> translator: can you imagine their international conspiracies? twitter witter, we have a court order now, we wipe out all of these. the international community can say this, can say that, i don't care at all. everyone will see how powerful the republic of turkey is. >> reporter: hours later twitter users in turkey began to experience widespread disruptions. twitter is fighting back, offering a work around so users can send out tweets with their cell phones. a controversial aunt gay pastor in the u.s., famous for protesting at military funerals,