Guessing you've all heard about the twitter debacle yesterday, but if not - http://archive.is/UIr39
Coming off this, though, we've learned several things:
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Either people can break into multiple extremely high profile twitter accounts easily (in which case Twitter's security is garbage) or someone with access to Twitter admin tools can pretend to post as anyone (in which case anything anyone says on Twitter is suspect)
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It seems Twitter has blacklists for trends and search terms in place. From other potential (unverifiable) screenshots I've seen they may have flags for reply deboosting, shadowbanning, and similar things associated with each account as well
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This got the government very interested in them again, and at least one senator demanding (ironically enough, via Twitter) that Jack cooperate with the feds on the investigation here.
So, is Twitter dead now? Given that it was already in a shaky place to start with, I don't realistically see how anyone could continue using it in good confidence at this point.
Dead? Idk too many people have Twitter addiction. Maybe it will help speed up the exodus though
In light of this if Trump ordered all federal departments to stop using the platform and he himself moved to something else that would be the death of Twitter.
There is good reason to believe twitter is completely converged by the CCP after this attack. It would be foolish for Trump not to have twitter executed using the latest HK EO while pushing Parler.
I hadn't realized that. Interesting ...
Is twitter dead? Doubt it. Normies don't care about this shit like they should.
https://twitter.com/geertwilderspvv
Can't believe no one has fixed Geert Wilders profile yet, though.
I've learned that Twitter has a long way to go. I mean the word "blacklist" is literally killing BIPOCs right now. Jack obviously isn't aware of his internalized racialism.
Also, I'm all out of Buzzwords, need to recharge.
I'm curious how many of the accounts have a PR firm behind them for many of the tweets and perhaps this was actually not the fault of Twitter not being secure but some PR firm not being secure.
Twitter provides rage porn for people addicted to the dopamine bump they get from telling off a celebrity. It's not going anywhere
I wish twitter would just die like myspace. Of course, it had blacklists and shadowbanning. Who cares what they say publicly. Anyone with half a brain could see that they had a bias against Republicans. Look at how many pro-Trump or conservative hashtags or anything making fun of regressives that became popular would just disappear off their trending list.