Posted on 11/06/2016 8:26:05 PM PST by nerdgirl
Twitter tonight took the UNPRECEDENTED move of silencing the leading critic of Hillary Clinton, Wikileaks. Twitter took the action to mute their tweets tonight, so that just a fraction of their followers will see them, and they no longer show up in searches. Check for yourself:
search Twitter for tweets by @wikileaks
Spread the word.
Twuck Fitter
Nope - still getting the 502 bad gateway a/o 12:25.
He simply MUST win. On Halloween I turned 68 years old and whatever is decided this Tuesday is the country I have to live with for the rest of my life. I too am worried but I am far more worried about our two adult kids and our 6 grandchildren.
God save our Republic.......
Someone posted a list of media contacts over at r/The_Donald. It’s got a lot of good twitter handles in it. Maybe you’d find it useful?
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/59i6u3/centipedes_heres_where_to_send_hot_emails_gowdy/
From a NYT interview with Milo Y several months ago:
There is absolutely no question that that is precisely what is directed at…It becomes very, very clear once you start looking at who is employed at Twitter. This guy used to work for Obama. This guy used to work for Hillary.” He believes the company is struggling and will make one last attempt to sway the election while it is still relevant.
“I think Twitter is gearing up to interfere in the election. Twitter, as a company, is dying. The share price is collapsing. They now have finally begun to admit that even their active users [are] going down. On every metric that investors care about, the company is tanking and there’s going to be a fire sale within in the next 6 months…They’re all political operatives for the Democrats. Anyway, this company is now tanking. I think what’s happening is a lot of the employees are saying, we’re going down, but why don’t we just become the most effective liberal attack vector we can as long as we still exist?”
I watched every minute of it. Thanks.
twitter appears to be down early this morning.
great post, thanks!!
_What is super weird is they are back on, as of maybe 8pm or a little later, I can’t be sure. And as I took no screenshot (which I should have!) - I haven’t even got proof that it ever happened. But I checked 2 of their accounts, and found only posts TO them, none written by them, in the search results.
I think Twitter floated a trial tonight to see what would happen if they just muted them for a little while.
no way!!! caramba something new each minute thank you for tellingme.
I can’t even login to Twitter right now. Maybe something big happening?
got the same at http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/twitter.com
And now somebody is silencing Twitter.
dDOS?
I have not been able to get on Twitter for over half an hour
Trying to silence the vote..........don’t let them! VOTE on Tuesday, whether twitter is back or not. Good night, All!
Tit for tat against Twitter?
they’ve been attacked, I believe. wikileaks revenge, lol. No I think they turned @wikileaks back on after just a 20 or 30 minute “muting” or “shadow ban” - I didn’t take screenshots, but 2 of their Twitter accounts did NOT have any tweets showing when I searched for them, although I could see when other people wrote TO them. Same for my own account. All 3 were working fine again when Twitter went offline maybe 30 minutes ago.
that is super cool thanks for the post
could be!
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