Supporters of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan started an hashtag on Twitter late Tuesday which said "WeLoveErdoğan," but the San Francisco-based social media giant censored it just a couple of hours later.



The hashtag was used over 520 thousand times and ranked first in the worldwide trending topics (TT) list. Twitter executives are yet to make a statement on the reason why the first-ranking hashtag was taken out of the list.



After Twitter censored the hashtag without specifying any reasons, users responded to the move with the new hashtags #WeStillLoveErdoğan and #TwitterCensoredErdoğan.



Erdoğan headed to the United States earlier on the same day for an official visit. During his visit, the president will have meetings with the Vice President Joe Biden and top-level business figures with aims to boost the Turkish economy.