"The angry message demanded that Albany politicians 'stop shoveling wealth from the lower 99 percent into the top 1 percent' and “set aside your ‘no new taxes on anybody’ pledge.'"

The email was reportedly sent to State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, and State Assembly Majority Leader Ron Canestrari. It's still unclear whether Governor Cuomo received the email as well.

WTEN in Albany says the text of the email reads:

“It’s time to tax the millionaires! If you don’t, I’m going to pay a visit with my carbine to one of those tech companies you are so proud of and shoot every spoiled Ivy League [expletive] I can find.”

It's hard to say exactly which tech companies they're targeting, but it's unlikely that it's the bootstrapped, lean crowd. Gov. Cuomo has been heavily touting a $4.4 billion upstate initiative led by IBM, Intel, and Samsung to develop next gen computer chip technology upstate.

Vibe, the anonymous, location-based version of Twitter popular at Occupy Wall Street.

Some protesters on Wall Street are chagrined to see that the protest, following an explosion of media coverage, still isn't trending on Twitter. On Wednesday, "Foley Square"--the meeting place for the megamarch planned with students and labor unions--made it into the top ten trends in New York. "Truly, @twitter. Foley Square is trending but #occupywallstreet never has? #occupytwitter," one user wrote.

But even "Foley Square" was quickly supplanted by terms related to the death of Steve Jobs. As one blogger representative of the Twitter censorchip theory wrote, "TrendsMap Proves Scary Twitter Censorship Of #OccupyWallStreet From Trending Topics." And as Young Manhattanite Andrew Krucoff points out, JP Morgan Chase is an investor in Twitter.

Twitter faced similar accusations back in February over Wikileaks, as some users wondered if tweets related to the controversial hacktivist group were being censored. The precise algorithm for determining trends is private, but the basic thrust is that it's not about volume--or else Justin Bieber, who dominates about three percent of tweets at any given time, would be constantly trending. "The bottom line is that trends on Twitter are NOT the most popular terms," said Sean Garrett, head of communications at Twitter in an email. "They are the most 'breaking' and reward discussions that are new to Twitter. We are not blocking terms related to #occupywallstreet in any way, shape or form."

And while it may look to a user like no one is talking about anything else, that's a fallacy of self-selection due to the fact that users tend to follow other people who are similar to them. "With more than 100 million active users on Twitter and more than 230 million tweets a day, everyone's timeline is vastly different," Mr. Garrett wrote.

One hypothesis is that the protest is using too many different hashtags--#occupywallstreet, #occupywallst and #ows. "We used to correlate terms for search benefit, but we don't anymore," Mr. Garrett said. "Regardless, we do not associate different (but possibly related) terms in the calculation of trends. This means that #ows or a new related term could 'break' on its own and be a trending topic if its usage hit a required peak."

An iPad set up Saturday night for anyone to tweet from the protest.

Demonstrators down on Wall Street for the 'Occupy Wall Street' campaign as well as interested parties following the event online were wondering why the hashtag hasn't broken into Twitter's trending topics list, which right now feature Radiohead, Doritos and #thechew, a new talk show. Considering there is evidence that Yahoo is blocking emails about the protest with a message about "suspicious activity," it was suggested that Twitter was also censoring the topic.

Not so, says Twitter's Carolyn Penner, who pointed us to this blog post, written after people made the same speculation about the #wikileaks tag, which explains that Twitter's trending topics are based on what's breaking out rather than what's popular. "Twitter Trends are automatically generated by an algorithm that attempts to identify topics that are being talked about more right now than they were previously," it explains.

Sometimes a topic doesn’t break into the Trends list because its popularity isn’t as widespread as people believe. And, sometimes, popular terms don’t make the Trends list because the velocity of conversation isn’t increasing quickly enough, relative to the baseline level of conversation happening on an average day; this is what happened with #wikileaks this week.

Protesters have been using #occupywallstreet, #occupywallst and #ows to collect tweets about the demonstration.