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By Dickens Olewe
image captionTwitter accounts of several activists were targeted by the copyright attack
Twitter s policy that deals with the infringement of copyright is increasingly being used to maliciously target accounts run by Tanzanian human rights activists in order to silence them, internet rights campaigners allege.
Every day on Twitter, Kigogo - a Swahili name that means a VIP or swashbuckling tycoon - doles out the latest gossip from Tanzania s corridors of power.
The details are embarrassing and shocking at times but Kigogo s nearly 400,000 Twitter followers love these revelations, dubbing Kigogo our president of the Twitter republic .