Twitter deleted a tweet about the FAA grounding of the Starship program

Re:Twitter deleted a tweet about the FAA grounding of the St... by karolkozub on Thursday April 27, 2023 @02:12AM (#35723919)

If this truly is an attempt at censorship, it seems that shadow banning could have been just as effective and harder to detect. Maybe they could even secretly add a generic has_negative_sentiment_towards_an_elon_company modifier to their ranking algorithm and dial the outreach of such tweets way way down, in similar vein to author_is_elon.

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Re:Twitter deleted a tweet about the FAA grounding of the St... by iudqnolq on Thursday April 27, 2023 @03:24AM (#35724447)

Indeed, but Elon's Twitter is a case study in low effort trolling.

For example, Twitter manually override the blue check system to make it look like critics had purchased it. Then someone realized changing their name would clear the checkmark. After dozens of iterations of Dril changing his name and having the checkmark manually re-added someone at Twitter thought to disable changing his name.

At every step of the way they used the shittiest possible solution. I'm unsurprised the pattern continues.

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Re:Twitter deleted a tweet about the FAA grounding of the St... by camgunz on Thursday April 27, 2023 @03:45AM (#35724588)

There's no reason to think Musk doesn't doomscroll Twitter looking for negative stuff about him to nuke. There doesn't have to be a galaxy brain plan here.

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