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.
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.