Twitter allegedly deleting negative tweets about United Airlines incident

Post by cheath » Tue, Apr 11, 2017, 1:18 PM UTC

dev_head_up wrote: post #10

67726e wrote: post #2

Would not at all surprise me. Twitter regularly censors popular right-of-center Twitter accounts.

Was sceptical of this myself until I experienced it. Scott Adams completely disappeared from my feed for, well I'd like to say months but can't pinpoint when it started. I assumed he had just given up his account/been banned. Until one day I searched for him, and there he was still posting. He had actively tweeted while I was logged on yet it was no-where on my timeline! I scrolled back a bit collarating tweets that…

Post by andoon » Tue, Apr 11, 2017, 1:21 PM UTC

cheath wrote: post #11

dev_head_up wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Was sceptical of this myself until I experienced it. Scott Adams completely disappeared from my feed for, well I'd like to say months but can't pinpoint when it started. I assumed he had just given up his account/been banned. Until one day I searched for him, and there he was still posting. He had actively tweeted while I was logged on yet it was no-where on my timeline! I scrolled back a bit collarating tweets that…

Beware the filter bubble

Post by mrdrozdov » Tue, Apr 11, 2017, 1:22 PM UTC

67726e wrote: post #2

Would not at all surprise me. Twitter regularly censors popular right-of-center Twitter accounts.

Post by cheath » Tue, Apr 11, 2017, 1:26 PM UTC

andoon wrote: post #13

cheath wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Beware the filter bubble

The entire point of Twitter was that there was no such filter, it would just show the tweets of everybody you followed in a chronological order. That's why we are all pissed.

Post by diogenescynic » Tue, Apr 11, 2017, 1:28 PM UTC