Re:Unceremoniously banned by Twitter: retaliation, or the norm?
by postmortembees on Monday July 17, 2023 @12:46PM
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Twitter has lost a ton of revenue, has dropped significantly in web ranking, recently had a gargantuan outage (which they are still recovering from), and they've made a number of extremely questionable decisions regarding privacy and security.
If you told me moderation staff and moderation tools were extremely understaffed at the moment, I would believe you. The false positive rate is likely high.
Additionally, Social Media CEOs (particularly Reddit and Twitter) seem to be a bit thin skinned right now, with the clear decline of Twitter encouraging lots of players to enter the space. I believe that Elon has officially said, multiple times, that "advertising" another social media platform on Twitter is a rules violation.
Put both of those together - declining platform and reactionary CEO - and this person's experience aren't surprising.
Re:Unceremoniously banned by Twitter: retaliation, or the norm?
by nonfamous on Monday July 17, 2023 @12:49PM
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Not that I'd be surprised if it were, but did you perhaps try to access that account from an unusual location or device?
I ask because I had the same thing happen to a little-used Twitter account of mine. Killing time while on vacation in a foreign company, I attempted to log in, and failed. Not sure if the failure was my fault or Twitter's. Nonetheless the outcome was the same -- the account was suspended for "breaking rules", despite not posting anything. An appeal failed, and I lost the account permanently.
If you told me moderation staff and moderation tools were extremely understaffed at the moment, I would believe you. The false positive rate is likely high.
Additionally, Social Media CEOs (particularly Reddit and Twitter) seem to be a bit thin skinned right now, with the clear decline of Twitter encouraging lots of players to enter the space. I believe that Elon has officially said, multiple times, that "advertising" another social media platform on Twitter is a rules violation.
Put both of those together - declining platform and reactionary CEO - and this person's experience aren't surprising.
I ask because I had the same thing happen to a little-used Twitter account of mine. Killing time while on vacation in a foreign company, I attempted to log in, and failed. Not sure if the failure was my fault or Twitter's. Nonetheless the outcome was the same -- the account was suspended for "breaking rules", despite not posting anything. An appeal failed, and I lost the account permanently.