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Twitter Is Going To Limit The Visibility Of Tweets From People Behaving Badly
BuzzFeed ^ | 5/15/18 | Alex Kantrowitz

Posted on 05/15/2018 6:41:08 PM PDT by lonewacko_dot_com

On Tuesday, Twitter announced a massive change to the way its conversations will work, evaluating not just the content of individual tweets, but the way users behave more broadly on the service. Twitter will now use thousands of behavioral signals when filtering search, replies, and algorithmic recommendations. If it believes you are trying to game its system, or simply acting like a jerk, it will push your tweets lower down. It’s the biggest update so far in the company’s push to create healthier conversations, an initiative announced by its CEO Jack Dorsey in March.

Among the signals Twitter will use: whether you tweet at large numbers of accounts you don’t follow, how often you’re blocked by people you interact with, whether you created many accounts from a single IP address, and whether your account is closely related to others that have violated its terms of service...

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abouttime; bigbrother; censorship; stasi; twitter
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Please don't think this only affects conservatives. My data shows that Twitter heavily censors all types of users including about an equal number of liberals and conservatives. On some threads to newsmakers, around 30% to 50% or more of the tweets are censored.

See this thread for how to force Twitter to change what they're doing:

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3654279/posts

If enough people help with that - such as by urging the media to cover just how bad Twitter censorship is - we could have a real impact on their censorship.

1 posted on 05/15/2018 6:41:08 PM PDT by lonewacko_dot_com
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To: lonewacko_dot_com

Supporting President Trump is behaving badly.


2 posted on 05/15/2018 6:42:18 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: lonewacko_dot_com

By whose definition?


3 posted on 05/15/2018 6:43:08 PM PDT by kempster
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To: lonewacko_dot_com

Where is the conservative competition for Twitter?


4 posted on 05/15/2018 6:43:39 PM PDT by donna (Jimmy Dean died in 2010. Why is he on TV selling sausage?)
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To: lonewacko_dot_com

By whose definition?


5 posted on 05/15/2018 6:45:18 PM PDT by kempster
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To: donna

I’d like to know that too.

Quit using twitter years ago.

RE: Your tag line Jimmy Dean might be dead, but his sausage is still good, that’s why.


6 posted on 05/15/2018 6:46:32 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: lonewacko_dot_com

Why waste time on twitter? Seriously.


7 posted on 05/15/2018 6:46:42 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: donna
Where is the conservative competition for Twitter?

It's a free market. Raise some capital and go for it.

8 posted on 05/15/2018 6:47:16 PM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: lonewacko_dot_com

“Behaving badly” being the operative term.
I think we all know what that Dog Whistle really means.
There may be some token appearance of applied discipline of libs when they get too rowdy, but that will be the exception to the rule.


9 posted on 05/15/2018 6:50:27 PM PDT by lee martell
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And the definition of ‘behaving badly’ that triggers the twitter AI is what ?


10 posted on 05/15/2018 6:52:00 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: lonewacko_dot_com

Internet Ghettoization...


11 posted on 05/15/2018 6:52:15 PM PDT by GraceG ("Q is dead, been dead a for a while...")
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To: lonewacko_dot_com

Death warrant signed by Twitter itself. If you have stock, sell it quick.
For months it has blocked Drudge and many others that I follow. I hardly ever visit Twitter now.


12 posted on 05/15/2018 6:52:39 PM PDT by tinamina
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To: Secret Agent Man

Trump is there.


13 posted on 05/15/2018 6:53:32 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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Quote the constitution and be banned for life


14 posted on 05/15/2018 6:54:17 PM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: lonewacko_dot_com

obama forbid we allow people to decide for themselves what to see.


15 posted on 05/15/2018 6:55:03 PM PDT by jarwulf
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gab.ai but people including conservatives would rather talk about how much they hate twitter and other ultraliberal corporations than actually stop using their services.


16 posted on 05/15/2018 6:56:03 PM PDT by jarwulf
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To: Shadowstrike

I refuse to buy dead-man-sausage!

I don’t use Twitter except for what I read here.


17 posted on 05/15/2018 6:58:33 PM PDT by donna (Jimmy Dean died in 2010. Why is he on TV selling sausage?)
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To: lonewacko_dot_com
"On Tuesday, Twitter announced a massive change to the way its conversations will work, evaluating not just the content of individual tweets, but the way users behave more broadly on the service. Twitter will now use thousands of behavioral signals when filtering search, replies, and algorithmic recommendations. "


18 posted on 05/15/2018 7:00:39 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: donna

Do you eat KFC ?


19 posted on 05/15/2018 7:01:28 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: jarwulf
Gab is an ad-free social network dedicated to preserving individual liberty, the freedom of speech, and the free flow of information on the internet. A free and open internet is essential to the future of a free world.

Is it vulgar?

20 posted on 05/15/2018 7:01:29 PM PDT by donna (Jimmy Dean died in 2010. Why is he on TV selling sausage?)
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