(Credit: Twitter/screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) The people of Turkey are still alive and well on the Twittersphere despite a government ban of the site. On Thursday, Turkish courts took Twitter offline for the country's 76 million citizens following actions by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan. An unabashed critic of social networks, Erdogan has threatened to "wipe out" the site in the wake of a political corruption scandal that has embarrassed the government through news, videos, and images posted on Twitter.