Twitter allegedly deleting negative tweets about United Airlines incident

Re:Twitter allegedly deleting negative tweets about United A... by dev_head_up on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @10:14AM (#14087924)

I've seen that and I'm sorry, but I really don't accept your explanation. I've never retweeted/liked/replied or tweeted, ever. I'm a passive consumer. I don't follow political accounts, or search out political views there. If anything, I reckon I was clicking a lot on his blog links via tweets, so (presumably) he should have been showing up more... rather than not at all.

I don't mean to sound like I'm holding you accountable for this! It's just, well this kinda thing is well dodgy and I want to assure people I'm not just cribbing about this without a basis.

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Re:Twitter allegedly deleting negative tweets about United A... by pcthrowaway on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @01:34PM (#14090399)

Just a thought, but even of clicking his blog links means you're engaging more, perhaps twitter is guiding their users to engagement in the form of scrolling through their feeds, since that's what twitter makes their money from. Thinking about it that way, maybe it makes sense to filter out tweets that are more likely to take you away from the site

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Re:Twitter allegedly deleting negative tweets about United A... by cheath on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @10:22AM (#14088030)

Yeah, I see what you are saying. In that case, I am simply not qualified to answer your question.

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