Could someone explain why wikileaks doesn't trend?

[EFerrari]

Someone wrote about this last week and I didn't really understand what they were saying.

If the tag was #americaslapdogs, would that trend? lol

/oops

[EFerrari]

1. Kick for answers.

[rainbow4321]

2. From what I read, it's because the word wikileaks is also a

user name?? I am far from being twitter wise but someone asked that question on twitter last week and they were told to use #cablegate to follow tweets about them and not the word #wikileaks because wikileaks was the word/username (?) of the account holder for wikileaks and when that situation happens, it will not officially trend.
I tried to make sense out of it all but I just searched for and followed "#cablegate" and have been following it that way.

[EFerrari]

3. Well, I can follow with wikileaks, imwikileaks,assange, cablegate

but none of those ever seem to trend. :shrug:

[rainbow4321]

4. Yeah, me too.

I have no prob following but the message I read at some point was explaining why #wikileaks wouldn't be able to be on the trend list.
I'm new to Twitter so I don't know much on the twitter factoids.
I have switched the location option to specific countries and on some of them #cablegate showed up on the trend list.

[PBS Poll-435]

5. Too easy

And here is a Koala.

He is tired.