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Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by sapporo_197 »

threatofrain wrote: post #122
britneybitch wrote: post #18

Wow. PG did not even post any links, he pretty much just said "I have a Mastodon account." And just like that, banned. Looks like now you're not allowed to so much as mention that you use other websites on the internet besides Twitter.

From official Twitter support: > We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter. > Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, T…

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Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by djur »

paganel wrote: post #224
djur wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The one good thing that's come out of Musk's ownership of Twitter is that we now have extensive public evidence that Twitter staff bent over backwards to maintain objective moderation standards even in the face of unprecedented challenges. The "leftist cabal" theories are thoroughly disproven now. And we see now the kind of actions that an actual ideological cabal would take if they controlled Twitter.

> The "leftist cabal" theories are thoroughly disproven now. Just the other day there was a post in here of the FBI getting actively involved in censoring Twitter content, if it had been only the "leftist cabal" involved (btw, there's nothing genuinely "leftist" about those people, but that's another story) things would have been way better.

The FBI passed along reports they received of possible violations of Twitter TOS (something we already knew they did), and the evidence is clear that they did not limit these reports to conservative accounts (something that has been claimed, but which never made sense, considering the FBI's historical Republican lean).

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by seydor »

Didn't he supposedly want to make twitter make money? For most of its highly followed people, twitter is basically that, a feed to lure users to other venues where they sell their stuff. He could have requested a fee for promoting those sites. This makes zero sense, twitter will never be a facebook replacement, not even instagram replacement.

looking forward to more craziness as the week unfolds

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by the_duke »

No one seems to have mentioned the really interesting aspect here:

Twitter must be bleeding DAUs.

There are other indicators too.

After the takeover they dropped the login wall, but it is back, and way more aggressive than before. You can't even scroll down to see more tweets now, or view replies.

The ads are also really weird and odd. Either their ad targeting system is broken, or they just lost so many advertisers that they have nothing good to show.

I bet the initial influx of previously turned away users is over, as well as the returning users just there for the show, and now the effects are compounding.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by deckard1 »

Hoyadonis wrote: post #42
openair18 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m guessing he got banned for posting this?

Not quite. This was his ultimate tweet: >This is my last straw. I give up. You can find a link to my new Mastodon profile on my site. The tweet itself did not contain a link to http://www.paulgraham.com/ , which contains a link to his Mastodon profile. Apparently that was enough to be suspended.

Paul Graham's mistake was he should have made an NFT of the link and posted that.

/s ...maybe? I honestly can't tell anymore

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by krferriter »

ajross wrote: post #76
britneybitch wrote: post #18

Wow. PG did not even post any links, he pretty much just said "I have a Mastodon account." And just like that, banned. Looks like now you're not allowed to so much as mention that you use other websites on the internet besides Twitter.

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I think we need to be at least open to the possibility that the current owner of privately held Twitter is an extraordinarily thin-skinned douchebag with the conflict management skills of a spoiled toddler, and a lengthy track record of petty ridiculous retaliation against people who suggest he is wrong about something or otherwise not the biggest genius in the world.

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Post by yibg »

bcrosby95 wrote: post #21

The situation with Twitter has gotten so ridiculous that it's pretty much impossible to comment substantively on this topic at this point. So: lol

The one potential silver lining is maybe now more people realize the ridiculousness of this all and the pendulum swings back the other way some how.
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