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Call it paranoia, but I have long felt that twitter suppresses my own tweets on “hot” political topics (I.e. 0 interaction, 0 in-person comments or discussion)
by ethagknight 8y ago
Call it paranoia, but I have long felt that twitter suppresses my own tweets on “hot” political topics (I.e. 0 interaction, 0 in-person comments or discussion), whereas literally every tweet a make gets some reactions. It’s just too uncanny to miss, yet I have no ability to prove.
I’ve even paid considerably to promote tweets on a mildly controversial topic that got next to no interactions.. never again will I pay twitter like that.
EDIT- re: the article and I don’t see this discussed elsewhere, I wonder if left leaning people are just 4x more likely to use the “flag as offensive” feature, leading Twitter to process and prosecute more conservative viewpoints?
- shard972 8y agoIt's already quite known to a few people that there are many words that will trigger twitter to push your tweets under the "show more". For example: Tranny. If you say that word in any context, your tweet will not show up in many of your followers timelines and if it was a reply it will only show up if you hit show more at least once. Maybe thats a good thing overall, but I can't help think about the long term effects when the words you can and cannot say can't easily be understood and we end up in some kind of world where only the most sanitized advertiser friendly tweets are the only ones your able to see without having to dig around all the time.
- mc32 8y agoAre you certain? In mechanics’ circles that has a completely neutral meaning. Doubt Twitter is so simplistic it can’t figure out people are talking about drivetrain transmissions.