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“Trends Blacklist” & “Search Blacklist” are interesting buttons. Manipulation much ?
by ycombonator 6y ago
“Trends Blacklist” & “Search Blacklist” are interesting buttons. Manipulation much ?
- ycombonator 6y agoTwitter Commie hacks are in full force downvoting
- dang 6y agoPlease stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments. It's not what this site is for, it destroys what it is for, and we ban account that do it. At least the GP comment contained actual information, however little.
- ycombonator 6y agoThanks for reminding got carried away.
- incrimintal 6y agoThat's for when JewishPrivilege trends
- cameronbrown 6y agoImmoral. Actively overriding what's really trending with what they prefer to trend. Assuming this leak is real.
- deegles 6y agoUmm wouldn't they be writing the 'trending' algorithm in the first place?
- duskwuff 6y agoPractically every "trending" algorithm involves some degree of manual tweaking. Otherwise, they end up prone to identifying uninteresting trends (like the current day of the week, or other time-sensitive trends like "lunch" showing up around local noon), or are easily manipulated by groups of users. Besides, one of the features of Twitter's Trends is a prose description of what the keyword references -- there's no way that could be generated automatically.
- benlumen 6y ago“Jews” was trending for hours yesterday with top results displaying anti-Semitic tweets. Just saying.
- bmarquez 6y agoIf the screenshot is real, I'm pretty sure that Scott Adams (the cartoonist) has that Search Blacklist button applied to him. I recently tried to search for users with his name, and he wouldn't appear at all (while unverified names with 0 followers would show up). Had to go through DuckDuckGo to find his handle.
- _mog1 6y agoProbably not: https://shadowban.eu/scottadamssays https://shadowban.eu/scottadamssays
- bmarquez 6y agoYou're right, thanks for the link. I was surprised because I searched for users with the name "Scott Adams" and it was promoting users with 0 followers and not showing his verified account at all. This was through Tweetbot iOS.
- hsod 6y agoWas this just now? Verified accounts weren’t showing up in search during the hack
- fireattack 6y agoTwitter shadow ban certain IDs in search suggestion isn't news, but @scottadamssays doesn't seem to be one of them.
- rvz 6y agoA user called '@viennacat921' joined in August 2019 with 0 tweets and is shown in the screenshot. '@b' is pernamently suspended and '@arceus' is protected and locked with all of this being reflected in the admin dashboard. This leak seems to be legit.
- viraptor 6y agoAny social network which doesn't want to become 8chan needs moderation and bans. Why are you surprised about this existing?
- nexuist 6y agoBecause filtering trends and search is not the same as banning accounts. These are unique features that affect all users, not just the ones who misbehave.
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- drummer 6y agoYep those buttons are what's most important about the screenshots in my opinion.
- gotoeleven 6y agoThe worst part is the racist use of the word black to describe a list of things to be excluded. Twitter should really use the less offensive term 'shitlist.'
- dimgl 6y agoSurely this is a joke?