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Twitter Suspension

27 points by ryanmccullagh 5y ago

codezero 5y ago
this is a dupe, for more comments see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29484545 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29484545
crackercrews 5y ago
Does anyone have a TLDR on what this account had recently tweeted that was contrary to the mainstream media narrative?
- epa 5y ago
  There was a mass suspension of accounts this morning
  - lowkey 5y ago
    Could you provide more details? Other than the Ghislaine Maxwell Trial tracker and the Nancy Pelosi Portfolio tracker, what other accounts were part of the mass suspension this morning?
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dmatech 5y ago
"Platform manipulation" includes things like leveraging one account to promote another. This person mentions having multiple accounts suspended. If this person was having one account promote or retweet another (not uncommon with gimmick accounts), Twitter might have just banned them all. I have multiple Twitter accounts myself, but I never interact with myself precisely because I don't want to violate this policy. It also includes buying followers (either fake accounts or real accounts that have given API access to a shady bot).
elevenoh 5y ago
https://twitter.com/nancytracker https://twitter.com/nancytracker - this insightful account was also just suspended. The decentralized alternative can't come soon enough.
- deleted 5y ago
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- kgwxd 5y ago
  At this point, if it was ever going to happen, I think it would have already.
  - rhizome 5y ago
    "...the second best time is today."
- coldacid 5y ago
  The fediverse does exist, it's just that nobody ever seems to know about it. https://the-federation.info/ https://the-federation.info/
eCa 5y ago
”You may not use Twitter’s services in a manner intended to artificially amplify […] information” I thought that was what Twitter was made for, honestly.
dhosek 5y ago
“The people wanted to hear the truth about the Ghislaine Maxwell, and Jeffrey Epstein trial” Hearing someone declaring that they're revealing “the truth” sets off all kinds of warning bells in my mind about conspiracy monging. Maybe that's not the case here, but my experience leads me to believe that it’s likely.
- lowkey 5y ago
  Everything about the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell story sets off alarm bells. Given the number of high-profile people involved, and the curious outcome that befell Jeffrey Epstein, I think conspiracy thinking may be a reasonable option to consider. It certainly does strike me as curious that the trial has been shortened to a week and the press mentions it barely at all. In this case, not being suspicious is frankly being naive.

27 points by ryanmccullagh 5y ago

this is a dupe, for more comments see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29484545 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29484545

crackercrews 5y ago

Does anyone have a TLDR on what this account had recently tweeted that was contrary to the mainstream media narrative?

epa 5y ago
There was a mass suspension of accounts this morning
- lowkey 5y ago
  Could you provide more details? Other than the Ghislaine Maxwell Trial tracker and the Nancy Pelosi Portfolio tracker, what other accounts were part of the mass suspension this morning?

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dmatech 5y ago

"Platform manipulation" includes things like leveraging one account to promote another. This person mentions having multiple accounts suspended. If this person was having one account promote or retweet another (not uncommon with gimmick accounts), Twitter might have just banned them all. I have multiple Twitter accounts myself, but I never interact with myself precisely because I don't want to violate this policy. It also includes buying followers (either fake accounts or real accounts that have given API access to a shady bot).

elevenoh 5y ago

https://twitter.com/nancytracker https://twitter.com/nancytracker - this insightful account was also just suspended. The decentralized alternative can't come soon enough.

deleted 5y ago
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kgwxd 5y ago
At this point, if it was ever going to happen, I think it would have already.
- rhizome 5y ago
  "...the second best time is today."
coldacid 5y ago
The fediverse does exist, it's just that nobody ever seems to know about it. https://the-federation.info/ https://the-federation.info/

eCa 5y ago

”You may not use Twitter’s services in a manner intended to artificially amplify […] information” I thought that was what Twitter was made for, honestly.

dhosek 5y ago

“The people wanted to hear the truth about the Ghislaine Maxwell, and Jeffrey Epstein trial” Hearing someone declaring that they're revealing “the truth” sets off all kinds of warning bells in my mind about conspiracy monging. Maybe that's not the case here, but my experience leads me to believe that it’s likely.

lowkey 5y ago
Everything about the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell story sets off alarm bells. Given the number of high-profile people involved, and the curious outcome that befell Jeffrey Epstein, I think conspiracy thinking may be a reasonable option to consider. It certainly does strike me as curious that the trial has been shortened to a week and the press mentions it barely at all. In this case, not being suspicious is frankly being naive.