The 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 hashta

The 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...