I love the sheer number of hacker news commenters saying “Well I tried it, seems to work”. At what level do you guys go “I’m just going to assume those 10 other guys aren’t lying”
Getting blocked from using Twitter is a productivity hack :)
Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
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Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
#32Going to assume its a keyword flagged because of protests from last year?
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#33https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/13711918852686725... > What's possible is a Twitter staffer tried to block a street address, but the postal syntax acted as an escape sequence, or the original was multi-line and they only pasted the city. What postal syntax in the US looks like an escape sequence?
I got blocked too, and so was referring to the ancient Egyptian city.
Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
#34Twitter has increasingly slid into user-hostile territory. I moderate /r/Twitter on reddit and we have a pinned thread just showing nothing but complaint after complaint, because content moderation is a failure when you attempt to scale it.
We'd like to get Twitter Comms to address it at some point, but the company is opaque. It's just nuts.
Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
#35https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/13711918852686725... > What's possible is a Twitter staffer tried to block a street address, but the postal syntax acted as an escape sequence, or the original was multi-line and they only pasted the city. What postal syntax in the US looks like an escape sequence?
Could be a typo or filling in whatever field incompletely - e.g. they meant to block a specific street address but only got the city name in the "block" field.
Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
#36Works as intended? I wonder if this is due to Memphis' association with racism, and it is an artifact of them trying to shut down the conversation about it becoming too overt by accident, instead of sneaky shadowbans, de-trending, and throttling.
no, there is no valid reason for this. Someone shipped something bad into production and hasn't rolled it back yet.
Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
#37Some twitter $2/hr contract worker for a subcontator (I knew nothing about the slave labor) on the other side of the world having fun.
If that were true they would've blocked a more common word. "The" for example.
Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
#38I wonder if they‘ll unlock everyone when they release the fix. I kind of doubt they will.
haha yeah right. after watching Twitter, Inc after all these years there's nothing left but to be cynical if they'll do the right thing.
Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
#39I am now enjoying my 12 hour enforced break from Twitter.
On Hacker News?
Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
#40I love the sheer number of hacker news commenters saying “Well I tried it, seems to work”. At what level do you guys go “I’m just going to assume those 10 other guys aren’t lying”
> At what level do you guys go “I’m just going to assume those 10 other guys aren’t lying”
For something easily testable? Never.
Edit: Account just got locked, lol.