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Twitter accidentally suspends its own CEO's account

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Re: Twitter accidentally suspends its own CEO's account

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Post by Kenji »

kevin_b_er wrote: post #19

I wonder if Twitter is susceptible to mass report attacks. I strongly suspect many of these systems just automatically suspend someone for too many reports. This makes it convenient if you don't like someone else's politics to just get a group to mass report them and you can silence whomever you want.

Happens on youtube all the time. There are raids to take other people's videos down, usually communities between which there is a feud.

Also, people like ASMR artists have seen a lot of takedowns of completely innocuous videos where they crinkle paper or something, just because people flagged it because they thought it's stupid and ridiculous.

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Post by phyzome »

kevin_b_er wrote: post #19

I wonder if Twitter is susceptible to mass report attacks. I strongly suspect many of these systems just automatically suspend someone for too many reports. This makes it convenient if you don't like someone else's politics to just get a group to mass report them and you can silence whomever you want.

It is. I won't go into details, but yes, it can be gamed.

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Post by hodgesrm »

gnicholas wrote: post #46
fowlerpower wrote: post #33

Silicone Valley companies wield too much power when it comes to these sorts of things. This is just another example of this, if they don't self regulate there will be laws that regulate them. Google was banning people's email and their entire digital life because of buying multiple pixel phones. This is an unrelated issue but they took it upon themselves to just use their unlimited power to screw people. It's like yo…

"Silicone Valley" is actually in Southern California—land of the implants.

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” Inigo Montoya

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Post by lholden »

fowlerpower wrote: post #33

Silicone Valley companies wield too much power when it comes to these sorts of things. This is just another example of this, if they don't self regulate there will be laws that regulate them. Google was banning people's email and their entire digital life because of buying multiple pixel phones. This is an unrelated issue but they took it upon themselves to just use their unlimited power to screw people. It's like yo…

Silicon != silicone :D. Silicon is a metalloid commonly used to produce silicon wafers for integrated circuits. (Hence, Silicon Valley :D).

Silicone is a rubbery polymer which contains silicon. :D (Ex, window calking, breast implants, etc.)

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Post by joe5150 »

herge wrote: post #44
iamatworknow wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's one comedian I know who deleted his twitter account (I think in part because of harassment he was getting, and also in an attempt to obscure his less savory posts from his non-famous days). Then he took to Instagram and started posting images of text with comments disabled. At that point, why even bother? Does the number next to the heart button mean that much to you?

Maybe to preven plagiarism? If people share the same image around, you can trace it back to the original author with a watermark, etc.

You'd be surprised by how little compunction people have with just copying it (via screenshot) and sharing it anyway.

See also: https://theawl.com/the-triumphant-rise-of-the-shitpic-e25d8e...

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Post by eyepulp »

Pigo wrote: post #29
fogleman wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Back and forth discussions are not the primary use of Twitter. I had a hard time with that for years too before I finally "figured it out." You just need to follow a lot of people who share your interests and then your timeline will become more interesting.

I've spent a lot of time curating who I follow, and I generally enjoy the people I have on there. But Tosh and the Mitch Hedberg bot don't put out enough to make up for the on-slaught of garbage, ads, and political opinions. I might find it more interesting if I was into Justin Beiber, who's trending ever time I look. Maybe I just need some suggestions on interesting feeds.

Mitch's low twitter output could come from a variety of factors. I'm banking on either a) heavy touring schedule or b) his death in 2005.

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Post by iamatworknow »

herge wrote: post #44
iamatworknow wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's one comedian I know who deleted his twitter account (I think in part because of harassment he was getting, and also in an attempt to obscure his less savory posts from his non-famous days). Then he took to Instagram and started posting images of text with comments disabled. At that point, why even bother? Does the number next to the heart button mean that much to you?

Maybe to preven plagiarism? If people share the same image around, you can trace it back to the original author with a watermark, etc.

I should've been clearer -- he's not even posting jokes or anything creative, just random social commentary mostly.

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Post by freehunter »

logicallee wrote: post #39
freehunter wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know at all, but a number that high may be fuzzy like with reddit's voting system. At some point to save database queries, they may just approximate the number.

that's an interesting perspective - though fuzzing by 46% seems more than I would expect (but may be possible.) I got 46% by doing 3.8/2.6 (you can check because 2.6 * 1.46 == 3.8). ----------------------------------- EDIT: I didn't change above the line with this edit but - why would anyone downvote this comment too? when all I say is it's an interesting perspective. (There are no comment replies at this time, just…

Someone in this thread is down voting just about everything. I wouldn't take it personally.
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