First, let me say a few things. If this article angers you, or you just want to help, tweet the following quote on your personal account.
@Twitter @TwitterSupport @Jack
It's already a cowardly thing to do, to suppress information, but not telling those you suppress that you're doing it? Even worse. This is why you aren't getting as many new people on your site now. You're killing your community.
I already did, and if you just want to RT that message, you can do so here.
It was brought to my attention about five days ago that Twitter wasn't letting people see my tweets in the hashtags I used. More people messaged me about it, and I decided to use xho's shadowban checker to see if that was the problem - or more appropriately, if they were keeping people from seeing what I post without decisively removing my account. Wouldn't ya know it? I was. Their metrics are simple.
Apparently
@insanityisfree is shadowbanned.
First make sure the user exists and is not suspended, the account is not protected and the user has written at least one tweet! Then you may also visit this link to a search on Twitter. If you can't see any tweet made by
So there you have it. Twitter is suppressing my content, and has been observably doing that for little under a week. These cowards used to claim they didn't even do it, and then when media pressure mounted they switched the story to "well, it's an anti abuse measure, but we don't do it a lot", then to "yeah, it's our platform, and we'll do what we want". I'm not even exaggerating that much, as this article from Wired Magazine can attest.
Those whose tweets are deemed to be "disruptive," but that don't violate Twitter's policies outright, will be secluded at the bottom of a conversation thread or search result, to make room for more productive and respectful conversations. Some of the new signals Twitter will consider include whether you've confirmed your email address, whether you've created multiple accounts from the same IP address, and whether you're frequently blocked by accounts you interact with. Tweets that get filtered this way—as long as they don't violate Twitter's policies—won't be removed, but you will have to click "Show more replies," or elect to "show everything" in your search settings in order to view them.
For now, it's unclear whether users will even know if they've been flagged under the new system. A Twitter spokesperson says the company is working on developing ways to give users the ability to appeal or flag mistakes. These new changes will likely affect a very small fraction of users; Twitter says that less than one percent of total accounts make up the majority of those reported for abuse. Twitter also notes that in early tests, the new signals resulted in fewer abuse reports being filed to begin with. The social network saw a 4 percent drop in reports from search, and an 8 percent drop in reports from conversations, according to the company.
Notice that - THEY ADMIT that the people they do this to aren't breaking rules! They just do what they want because someone is "being disruptive". If you have a Twitter account, how does it feel to know they think of you as classroom kids who must avoid making noise to avoid punishment?
Well then, you're going to love what I was informed of this morning. My account, which has existed for almost a decade, published 62.8 thousand tweets, and gained 15.9 thousand followers without cucking to goddamn anyone, ever, is now being called spam! Twitter user @DirrtyMcGirrty has informed me that this tweet, containing a link from 
From their article, "In a series of videos that have gone viral, a law student was apparently arrested for the crime of making a police officer mad, and the student’s refusal to immediately follow the officer’s demands led to a nasty fight."
It details the abuse ifa woman for agerin a police officer, shows that police officer unlawfully arresting her, yanking her by one arm out of her car, slamming her head into the door on the way out of her car, and ripping at her hair when the woman resisted. In any other case, this would be considered assault and battery, but since it was committed by an agent of the state, she'll likely go away for a long time for the crime of trying not to be a slave.
Twitter clearly doesn't want you to know this though. For maybe two years, I've been using IFTTT (If This Then That) to automatically tweet out links to 
The guy who told me the article was being suppressed sent me a screenshot, and it detailed that Twitter is trying to scare people away from clicking on my links, as they "may be unsafe".
So even though I'm breaking NO rules, I've been shadowbanned, and now Twitter is actively trying to scare my followers into thinking I'm "unsafe". WELL I AM UNSAFE, MOTHERFUCKERS!
I'm unsafe to your paradigm - the one which pushes fake news and celebrity gossip as fact. I'm unsafe to your asinine, bullshit "editorial staff", which creates public opinion under the guise of "curating moments". I'm dangerous to the unholy alliance you want to foster and maintain between San Francisco and Saudi Arabia. I'm dangerous to your targeted, handcrafted, petty, well-invested narratives!
Because I don't think like you want me to. I don't think like Alwaleed Bin Talal wants me to think. I'm not going to apologize for anything, much less eating a sandwich. Yeah, I saw that too, Jack. I listen to all sides. I talk to anyone who will talk to me. I'm a member of over 30 blocklists, and I'm going to fuck up your idea of what your platform should be until you spineless, craven cunts ACTUALLY BAN ME. And then I'll keep coming back, every time, to make your days worse with yet more accounts that tell the truth, without your filters.
You can think you win by doing stuff like this, but ideas are goddamn bulletproof, and in the end, it isn't people like me who need people like you , it's people like you who need people like me. Until you cut your hubris, I will cut you down.
Believe it.
