(CNN) -- "Dear Chinese Government," began a message sent late Thursday from Twitter CEO Dick Costolo. "Year-long detentions for sending a sarcastic tweet are neither the way forward nor the future of your great people," he wrote on his Twitter profile. Costolo's edict is no doubt a response to the Chinese woman who had been sentenced to a year in a labor camp for retweeting a message that officials in China disapproved of. The tweet mocked Chinese people who were aligning with the Chinese government by protesting Japanese products. In an hour, Costolo's message had well surpassed a hundred retweets -- an act similar to forwarding an e-mail, denoting interest in the content. It quickly climbed to the top spot on the list of trending tweets, an automated system that surfaces popular messages on the service.
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo sent a message on his Twitter page late Thursday night
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The tweet is critical of the Chinese government for detaining one of its citizens
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A Chinese woman was sentenced to a year in a labor camp for one of her retweets
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