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Not sure, some users were claiming that his tweets weren't appearing in their timelines. Not like CNN is going to investigate though.
by toss1941 10y ago
Not sure, some users were claiming that his tweets weren't appearing in their timelines. Not like CNN is going to investigate though.
- jjawssd 10y agohttp://i.imgur.com/qbO8RAt.png http://i.imgur.com/qbO8RAt.png This has been coming for a while: http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/02/16/exclusive-twitter-shadowbanning-is-real-say-inside-sources/ http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/02/16/exclusive-twitter-s...
- toss1941 10y agoI do know for a fact they shadow-banned or throttled Scott Adams, who is far from a conservative but likes to practice free speech and is very open about what he finds problematic on his side of the aisle. Most of his tweets never appear on my timeline.
- anigbrowl 10y agoYou'll need to do a lot better than that. If I screenshotted it every time TWitter broke down momentarily I could make all sorts of wild claims. Also FOH with that nazi news network.
- jjawssd 10y agoTwitter shadow banned the following October 3, 2016 Tweets. When Twitter shadow bans Trump’s tweets, the public can no longer see any of the tweets, and only users who replied or re-tweeted the tweet’s can see said censored tweet — or if one knows the URL/web address of the tweet, one can see said censored tweet. Here are the URL/web address for each one (take note that hardly anyone has re-tweeted or liked any of them): 1 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783101590299291648 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310159029929164... 2 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783101691105128448 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310169110512844... 3 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783101896869318656 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310189686931865... 4 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783101996777639936 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310199677763993... 5 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783102584458350592 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310258445835059... 6 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783102939015417856 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310293901541785... 7 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783103193546829826 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310319354682982... 8 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783103262333345792 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310326233334579... 9 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783103327764553728 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310332776455372... 10 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783103555058020352 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310355505802035... 11 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783103649006260224 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310364900626022... 12 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783103762256703488 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310376225670348... 13 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783118975240634372 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78311897524063437... 14 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783107076327284737 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310707632728473... 15 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783107034375790592 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310703437579059... 16 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783106986095185920 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310698609518592... 17 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783106934941417472 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310693494141747... 18 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783106881292148736 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310688129214873... 19 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783106816607596544 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310681660759654... 20 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783106772613537792 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310677261353779... 21 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783106671723720704 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310667172372070... 22 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783106624302960640 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310662430296064... 23 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783106566903869440 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310656690386944... 24 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783106498314379264 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310649831437926... 25 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783106427925635072 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310642792563507... 26 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783106371478654976 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310637147865497... 27 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783106286590111744 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310628659011174... 28 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783106245947297793 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310624594729779... 29 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783106157275549696 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310615727554969... 30 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783106201403875329 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310620140387532... 31 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783106037700108288 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310603770010828... 32 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783105928249737218 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310592824973721... Twitter deleted the following October 3, 2016 Tweet: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/783101384564482049 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310138456448204...
- anigbrowl 10y agoThanks for taking the time to itemize these. I notice they're clustered around a shortish period, and wonder if this is not simply the result of some technical glitch than any organized effort. I don't have any connection with or programming experience of working with twitter's API, but I don't find it so odd that from a high volume of tweets sent from a variety of mobile devices, a few should run into problems. as I mentioned, I hit minor problems 2-3 times a day and I'm a pretty casual Twitter user. Your source* asserts that these actions were intentional but doesn't actually offer any evidence for this claim. I'm afraid I'm disinclined to believe a site which relies so heavily on handwaving and CAPITAL LETTERS to persuade readers. Searching for other sources only turned up articles from fringe outlets like Breitbart, and absent any sort of rigorous/technical analysis I'm not inclined to take the matter very seriously. I did find one article+ about the phenomenon of 'deleted tweets' which went into more depth but which was written some time earlier rather than being a comment on this alleged incident. While it was in the Washington Post, a paper you probably love to hate, it wasn't especially focused on election matters and so it might be a good lead for you to perform more rigorous analysis or to contact someone with experience in this area who could substantiate or explain away your claims. I'll certainly be interested to read about it if you uncover more concrete evidence. * http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/twitter-buries-32-donald-trumps-goto-battleground-tweets-deletes-another/ http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/twitter-buries-32-do... + https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/10/30/a-guide-to-why-some-activists-believe-their-tweets-are-being-censored-in-the-u-s/?utm_term=.f3db00119908 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/10...
- jjawssd 10y agoIt seems to be that the next logical step would be to write a bot which uses the methodology described in the image several layers above to check if POTUS is shadow banned. Thoughts?
- anigbrowl 10y agoPractical and worthwhile, but don't forget your control group so that you have a baseline against which to make meaningful comparisons. I'm not a data scientist though, so you might get better ideas by starting an Ask HN thread focused on the general problem of 'am I shadowbanned on Twitter?'