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This is quite an allegation. Please provide a link to evidence that this happened. Thanks!
by aaronchall 10y ago
This is quite an allegation. Please provide a link to evidence that this happened. Thanks!
- patrickg_zill 10y agoThe behavior that I saw, was a hashtag auto-complete working, then, after it became more popular, it would not complete. In some cases a wrongly spelled hashtag would auto-complete and the original would not, even if you were to spell everything but the very last character. That's the behavior. The motivation or code behind that behavior, I can speculate about but cannot prove. Twitter charges for the custom icons that show up, e.g. the BLM three brown circles. An ad agency used by the RNC (EDIT: actually the Trump campaign) had offered to spend $5 million for a custom icon for a hashtag they wanted to use. @jack personally scotched it, even though the vetting process had already been gone through and the funds from the agency allocated. That is circumstantial evidence that gives a possible motive. https://medium.com/@garycoby/twitter-restricts-trump-eb7e48ccf5ff#.6d05tfm7w https://medium.com/@garycoby/twitter-restricts-trump-eb7e48c...
- MR4D 10y agoI don't know of anything about a leaked list, but a quick google came up with this about shutting alt-right accounts: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/11/15/twitter-suspends-alt-right-accounts/93943194/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/11/15/twitter-s... It's like twitter is the modern version of an open mail relay with a character limit and lots of people shouting. Hard for me to believe they can solve many of their problems without changing their service considerably.