Twitter

[admin]

A Twitter employee and other reliable sources have confirmed that the social media giant is quietly censoring accounts using what's called Shadow Banning, (also called Ghost Banning, Stealth Banning, or Hell Banning) which is a method to prevent users' posts from showing up on others' timelines, all the while the person being censored usually doesn't notice. It's the Memory Hole from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, which is why many are tweeting the hashtag

[Jack Ryan]

 

[Money & Finance]

Twitter will be announcing its 24/7 streaming video deal with Bloomberg soon – here’s what’s interesting about it https://t.co/tQCnhUlJ7D

— Mathew Ingram (@mathewi) May 1, 2017

World News - Money

[Guest]

#VerificationSuspended

Yesterday, Twitter (+1.58%) suspended all account verification on the social media platform. You know, that little blue check mark that means your tweets are more important than others.

It all started when someone (most likely a temp working verification protocol) green-lighted the account of Jason Kessler—a Unite the Right white supremacist who so eloquently tweeted, "I must be the only working class white advocate with that distinction." And to little surprise, the Twitter firestorm ensued.

But it’s not @Jack’s swift response to rethink the verification process that caught our eye. It’s this increasingly fine line between what’s policeable content and what’s freedom of speech. Fresh out of a congressional hearing last week, Twitter, Facebook, and Google are proving that great power does in fact come with great responsibility.

And what’s worse for Dorsey and Twitter? All the headaches of that responsibility without the fun of profitability.

Via Morning Brew

[Guest]

$60,000—The potential annual cost of that all-important blue “verification” check mark on Twitter (well, before yesterday). In some cases, Twitter requires a $5,000/month ad spend to maintain account verification.

[Guest]

The great Twitter purge.