re: Federal Judge says Twitter is a PUBLIC FORUM....LOLOLOL

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People are asking us if we shadow ban. We do not. But let’s start with, “what is shadow banning?”

The best definition we found is this: deliberately making someone’s content undiscoverable to everyone except the person who posted it, unbeknownst to the original poster.

We do not shadow ban. You are always able to see the tweets from accounts you follow (although you may have to do more work to find them, like go directly to their profile). And we certainly don’t shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideology.

We do rank tweets and search results. We do this because Twitter is most useful when it’s immediately relevant. These ranking models take many signals into consideration to best organize tweets for timely relevance. We must also address bad-faith actors who intend to manipulate or detract from healthy conversation.

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What Happened This Week

Yesterday, we identified an issue where some accounts weren’t auto-suggested in search even when people were searching for their specific name. To be clear, this only impacted our search auto-suggestions. The accounts, their tweets and surrounding conversation about those accounts were showing up in search results. As of yesterday afternoon, this issue was resolved.

There were a number of follow up questions relating to our thread yesterday that we wanted to address:

1. “How many people were impacted by the search auto-suggest issue?”

Hundreds of thousands of accounts were impacted by this issue. This impact was not limited to a certain political affiliation or geography. And, to be clear, these accounts were only impacted within search auto-suggestions-- they still appeared in search results. This issue has now been resolved.

3. “It looks like this only affected Republican politicians. Were Democratic politicians also impacted?”

Yes, some Democratic politicians were not properly showing up within search auto-suggestions as result of this issue. As mentioned above, the issue was broad-ranging and not limited to political accounts or specific geographies. And most accounts affected had nothing to do with politics at all.

3. “OK, so there was a search auto-suggest issue. But what caused these Republican representatives to be impacted?”

For the most part, we believe the issue had more to do with how other people were interacting with these representatives’ accounts than the accounts themselves (see bullet #3 above). There are communities that try to boost each other’s presence on the platform through coordinated engagement. We believe these types of actors engaged with the representatives’ accounts-- the impact of this coordinated behavior, in combination with our implementation of search auto-suggestions, caused the representatives’ accounts to not show up in auto-suggestions. In addition to fixing search yesterday, we’re continuing to improve our system so it can better detect these situations and correct for them.


We’re focused on making these systems better and smarter over time and sharing our work and progress with all of you. We think it’s critical to promoting healthy public conversation on Twitter and earning trust.

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The filth just lie.

You can't be blocked if you don't have an account to block. The only way you can make your account invisible is to make it to where only people you follow our who follow you can see it. And for the follows, you can set it up to where you can approve before someone can follow you.

Why is twitter all of the sudden the enemy? It's the inky way you can hear the real news, right?

It wasn't just republicans. Our politicians for that matter. But trump knows how to play the game and get his followers all wound up.

Trump cannot block people from seeing his tweets. If you don't understand that, why are you even in here?

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Lol. No! Not your twitter! How will you know which illiterate athlete thinks you should drink coke!

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Are you really this fricking dumb? All you do all day long is praise what he tweets and now your mocking someone for explaining the basics of it to you.

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Because a judge ruled so, since he's in public office.

Was explaining how the accounts ordinarily work. Not having an account doesn't mean you can't see content.

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Let's keep playing moron. Nobody can be banned because pllitic8ans

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Isn’t he really just blocking someone from commenting and not blocking them from seeing the tweet? Forgive me if that incorrect. Im not a twitterer.

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Protect your Tweets

If selected, only those you approve will receive your Tweets. Your future Tweets will not be available publicly. Tweets posted previously may still be publicly visible in some places

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From my privacy page. Not sure if you can make it where people can see but not comment. Looks like it's all or nothing.

I know there is a "block" and "mute" option too.

Block:

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@XXX will no longer be able to follow or message you, and you will not see notifications from @XXX. Learn more about what it means to block an account.

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Mute keeps there content from showing up on your timeline, which ordinarily is for when someone you follow keeps retweeting someone you don't care for. So all you have to do with that is just not allow any content from that account to show up on your timeline. They could still search you and see your stuff, but you don't see their's.

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explaining the basics of it to you.

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Goddamn. Seriously being stupid is one thing. Claiming to be a "twitter expert" because you follow Obama and some athletes is just absurd.