If the screenshot is real, I'm pretty sure that Scott Adams (the cartoonist) has that Search Blacklist button applied to him. I recently tried to search for users with his name, and he wouldn't appear at all (while unverified names with 0 followers would show up).

Had to go through DuckDuckGo to find his handle.

A user called '@viennacat921' joined in August 2019 with 0 tweets and is shown in the screenshot. '@b' is pernamently suspended and '@arceus' is protected and locked with all of this being reflected in the admin dashboard.

This leak seems to be legit.

Probably not: https://shadowban.eu/scottadamssays

You're right, thanks for the link.

I was surprised because I searched for users with the name "Scott Adams" and it was promoting users with 0 followers and not showing his verified account at all. This was through Tweetbot iOS.

Was this just now? Verified accounts weren’t showing up in search during the hack

Twitter shadow ban certain IDs in search suggestion isn't news, but @scottadamssays doesn't seem to be one of them.

Any social network which doesn't want to become 8chan needs moderation and bans. Why are you surprised about this existing?

Because filtering trends and search is not the same as banning accounts. These are unique features that affect all users, not just the ones who misbehave.

Yep those buttons are what's most important about the screenshots in my opinion.

Practically every "trending" algorithm involves some degree of manual tweaking. Otherwise, they end up prone to identifying uninteresting trends (like the current day of the week, or other time-sensitive trends like "lunch" showing up around local noon), or are easily manipulated by groups of users.

Besides, one of the features of Twitter's Trends is a prose description of what the keyword references -- there's no way that could be generated automatically.

“Jews” was trending for hours yesterday with top results displaying anti-Semitic tweets. Just saying.

Umm wouldn't they be writing the 'trending' algorithm in the first place?

Surely this is a joke?

Twitter Commie hacks are in full force downvoting

Please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments. It's not what this site is for, it destroys what it is for, and we ban account that do it.

At least the GP comment contained actual information, however little.

Thanks for reminding got carried away.