Posted on 02/21/2018 9:25:01 AM PST by AU72
Overnight Twitter exploded with rage, sending #TwitterLockOut to the top of the trending list. People like Ben Garrison, the famous cartoon artist, are reporting they have lost thousands of followers in an instant and more are dropping out by the minute. It appears that only conservative accounts are included in the follower purge.
#TwitterLockout - just saw 2k followers go poof~ What's up Twitter? — BenGarrison Cartoons (@GrrrGraphics) February 21, 2018
RED ALERT!
Twitter is Banning Hundreds of THOUSANDS of Conservative Accounts Tonight.. I literally just lost 5,000 Followers within the last 10 minutes.
All hands on Deck America, #TwitterLockOut — Matt Couch ?? (@RealMattCouch) February 21, 2018
In a matter of hours it seems twitter removed over 2,500 followers from my account.
Anyone else experiencing this today? #TwitterLockOut — Veteran For Trump (@Veteran4Trump) February 21, 2018
#TwitterLockOut shit it just dropped another 1,000 — Joe Biggs (@Rambobiggs) February 21, 2018
How in the world did I lose 500 followers in less than 3 hours?! ??@carrieksada @thebradfordfile @DebbieAAldrich I noticed y’all lost some too: must be those pesky “Russians”. SAD #TwitterLockOut #MAGA pic.twitter.com/r1rxPew9c5 — Donald J. Thump (@POTUSThump) February 21, 2018
Gab TV broadcast the reports they are getting by the thousands of people locked out. Twitter seems to be labeling Trump supporters "Russian bots" and banning them until they provide confidential information most people don't want Twitter to have.
BREAKING: Twitter falsely labels thousands of users as bots, locks them out of their account?? https://t.co/nIzzClqMBU — Gab: Free Speech Social Network (@getongab) February 21, 2018
This is not unexpected. We have been reporting on Twitter tomfoolery for quite a while now and have been waiting for the main purge to begin. This looks like the big one. In order to get back into their accounts, Twitter is requiring a phone number to be attached to the account. Gab TV thinks it could be a data grab. At the same time, Twitter is having a scandal at Periscope involving minors being groomed by pedophiles and talked into doing sexual acts online for adults. Critics say Twitter hasn't done much to stop it. The Daily Mail reported on it back in December:
In a video shown to The Sunday Express, a girl aged around seven or eight is seen sitting in her living room, with her mother just metres away, while paedophiles post sexual requests. Speaking to the paper, Shaun Stockdale, 34, from Hull, said he noticed a large number of users clicking onto the video and was disturbed by the comments being posted underneath. 'It became clear pretty soon that these were not children her own age, they were grown men – paedophiles – exploiting her for their own gratification.
Periscope and Twitter are aware of these issues but it was still going on as of last week when I reported two videos that were brought to my attention showing minor girls being harassed and groomed by sickos. The same thing happened to #MeToo during a live stream and I was unable to block the harasser.
“But why doesn’t someone start a new service?”
There are some.
I think what is making them harder to break into the mainstream is that big brands aren’t utilizing them, and everyday people really can barely deal with one service to add a second, and lots of times some real extremist loons, who just get off trying to see who can be the most outrageous, get there first and make the first-impression people have one that makes them go “nope”.
Minds.com and Gab.ai are making a good honest go
Joseph Goebbels would be proud.
No. They can’t remove Ramadan (Eid) because Apple doesn’t make a calander composed of camels and goat sphincters.
Twitter, YouTube, Google, Facebook, .. run by Nazis.. for Nazis. all others need not apply.
There is no right to Twitter, or anything else in the social media realm.
I'm glad I'm not the only one. Life's too short to have to spend a load of time to learn the navigation. Next.
Doesn't work with your nickname...wait, maybe.
The Left have gone completely off the rails, and by doing so they are creating some very real opportunities for people willing to take advantage.
I too wonder where the Conservative alternative to Social Media madness is.
Same here. I happened to know Andrew Torba through Internet chat boards, enough to be invited early-on to help beta test Gab. I just could not navigate the site easily - Im all for new kinds of programs, but not when they require so much time to learn how to get around. I gave my feedback but there’s only so much they could do. I gave up.
I subscribe to him too. I like seeing a 19 year (he’s 19, 20 or so) old kid “get it”. He was a leftist leaning Hussein voter.
I avoid hashtagging because I suspect Twitter uses # to root out like-minded people. In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me if Twitter staff *start* the hashtags & encourage people to use them, just so they can purge those who #joinin
I get practically all my news on twitter. It’s better than any other source bar none. There are guys covering amazing things happening in the gulf states that you don’t read anywhere else.
Oh, you mean expanding and becoming more influential is not good with you?
No I meant if you are already a fan.
The enemy hates Christianity, truth, morals, family. Twitter, while useful, is NOT on our side.
I think the same about Gab. It doesn’t really appeal to me. I know it is a platform for free speech but some of the users, more than I expected, are pretty far out in hateful attitudes. I do block them. Just don’t need their junk.
I am thinking of ways to attract the disillusioned Facebook and Twitter users (millions of them)
And JimRob could become a billionaire too.
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