6 comments. I mainly used Twitter to talk with celebrities or to promote my writings, but with the trolls and Twitter Support censoring people yet not suspending the real bullies -- it's getting to be a real turn off to use Twitter. Beyond allowing banned accounts to sneak back on, many other high-profile QAnon promoters are still active and prolifically spreading conspiracy theories. A week later, Twitter has indeed taken some of these steps. ); If you select It's abusive or harmful, we’ll ask you to provide additional information about the issue you’re reporting. The company has been more recently focused on aggressively suspending accounts, as part of the effort to stem the flow of disinformation, bots, and abuse on its service. Mitchell, a vocal Trump supporter and QAnon adherent, was suspended on Friday night. can't even get into the web.
At long last, Twitter has permanently banned Bill Mitchell from its little corner of the internet. They are completely inept.
The removal of these accounts didn’t affect the company’s user metrics, Twitter’s CFO later clarified. The company actually lost a million monthly active users in Q2, with 335 million overall users and 68 million in the U.S.
They are just the sort of accounts tailormade for Twitter to ban as part of a sweeping crackdown on a violent conspiracy theory that’s gotten out of control and made the site less safe for regular users. It pops up with ‘currently suspended’ and I can dismiss it, then go on to settings, etc.
76. That's a bad practice, to be clear, and it's good that Twitter responds with harsh action when it discovers an offender. Reached for comment, Twitter declined to answer our specific questions and said it could also not go into further details as that would give those attempting to evade a suspension more insight into its detection methods. Just not for the reasons you might think.
Immediately after the ban, the user started up a new account and had it for around eight months, posting plenty of bigoted tweets before finally getting banned again a few weeks ago. So unless Twitter implements a real ban, QAnon is here to stay. "The account you referenced has been permanently suspended for violating the Twitter Rules by using one account to evade the suspension of another account," the statement reads. The twitter rules sort of say that this is against the rules, but not explicitly, and I can't find a way to report this. 4 comments.
Nothing to share on amount of accounts impacted since this work will remain ongoing, not just today.”. I don’t support The Outline’s plan. Edit: Received a response. We apologize for the error. I'm starting to think there are bots for admins at Twitter Support -- I never get any real replies even though I've sent them all the links to the abusive posts. Don't try to work out their logic. twitter down again? New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. I've been following the Contact Us link at the bottom of the page and selecting the Ban Evasion report reason, I see they've updated it recently to change how you list the offending accounts so it appears that it is still an active form, I just want to know if I'm doing something wrong. Everything about Twitter! Remix by Jason Reed. Don't try to work out their logic. Support.
We will continue this work in the coming weeks as we identify others who are attempting to Tweet following an account suspension. Select Report message from the pop-up menu. His anti-masking rants and sharing of things like the demon sperm doctor video would seem to easily violate the rules Twitter established in May around the sharing of misinformation. Twitter Support won't suspend the users that are harassing me on Twitter, yet they ban people for no reason. In the end, Mitchell has been deprived of his platform and that's a positive change. A person creates anonymous accounts to harass me so she evades getting suspended on her main account but Twitter Support refuses to suspend her main account just because she's "behaving" on her main account even though my stalker is the one behind the anonymous accounts.
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Together, they have racked up over 100,000 followers already, swiftly encroaching on their pre-ban reach. It comes down to this: You cannot circumvent any Twitter suspensions. best.
report. Or when you try to log in, it immediately gives you the suspended message?
This prevents spam and will not be changed on a per user basis. recently acquired technology from anti-abuse firm Smyte. “From the 22nd to the 28th there have been 809,000 posts, down 34 percent, from 302,000 unique authors,” a number down 14 percent from just before the ban. Mitchell's aggressive behavior has at times fallen dangerously close to what the site defines as hateful conduct.
Overall, mentions of QAnon and its related hashtags are down across the board. Twitter was not able to answer our questions, when asked for comment. — Will Sommer (@willsommer) August 14, 2020 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter