Many of us use Twitter to stay updated on breaking news and to get it fast. Twitter is also a great place for people to express their opinions online. Unlike Facebook, people say they really want to be on Twitter mostly because their family members (parents and grandparents) aren't Twitter users and they can't get in trouble at home for what they say on Twitter.

People also use Twitter to express their opinions about bias in the media and what media sources you can actually trust. This is important to many people, especially during election season. Many news sources are claiming one candidate is best based off of public opinion ("Who won this debate? Clearly ___.") while the Internet actually makes a totally different claim.

One of the reasons why people use Twitter is to avoid media bias. Basically all media companies are on Twitter, so users can be updated from many different sources. Trusting the media is so important because the media decides which information we stay informed on and what is not as critical. This is why we won't see something about a fire in Chicago on our local news if we live in Atlanta. This information isn't considered important in Atlanta.

Many of us consider Twitter one of the best news sources, because unlike local news, we get information from all around the world in one place. But, could Twitter be blocking trends in the same manner as our local news?

On Feb. 25, a hashtag that trended almost the entire day was #WhichHillary. Users posted their criticisms of Hillary Clinton's political inconsistencies using this hashtag. This got a lot of attention. There were over 500 thousand tweets using this hashtag.

By the end of the day, this hashtag was completely gone from the trending section and tweets were missing when searching the hashtag. The creator of this trend was also removed.

It's also been reported that another hashtag questioning Hillary Clinton's honesty about money she received from doing public speeches, #ReleaseTheTranscripts, was removed as well and tweets using this hashtag could not be found. But, this one happened first. It happened after the last Democratic debate.

The main question is, why were these hashtags removed?

It could be something simple. This trend could be seen as harassment toward Clinton. It is in Twitter's user policy that harassment is not allowed and therefore, that is why the hashtag was removed. But, in this case, most people were not trying to harass Clinton. This hashtag was supposed to generate concern about Clinton's frequent changes in opinion.

But could it be something bigger? Could Twitter be doing the same thing as CNN?

Many opinions are influenced by things they see online. If users see one of their favorite celebrities endorsing a certain candidate, they may be more likely to go and endorse that candidate themselves, even if they had not done so before the promotion.

If Twitter wanted to support a certain candidate in this way, they could easily do it. Similar to the way Google can influence voters, Twitter could make certain topics trend to everyone in the country. But, according to Twitter, this isn't how Twitter works.

Twitter operates by an algorithm, which "identifies topics that are popular now." The Twitter algorithm bases trends on location and users that you're following.

It will be interesting to see how Twitter reacts to future trends against specific candidates.