Posted on 02/07/2022 9:58:55 AM PST by JV3MRC
Twitter launched a new tool that allows users to secretly downvote tweets to “better surface the most relevant content,” the platform said in an email to MRC Free Speech America. Twitter will be able to poison tweets that leftists don't like by moving negative replies to the top and burying favorable comments.
The Verge published a report Feb. 4 headlined, “Twitter expands downvote test worldwide.” The platform initially gave the option to select web users, but will expand it to include iOS and Android users. “Unlike on sites like Reddit, total tallies for upvotes and downvotes aren’t public, but are being used by Twitter behind the scenes to tweak what replies it shows users,” the report said. Panned tweets, in other words, may see mostly negative comments inundating the replies section, a new censorship gambit for the platform. A Jan. 4 report by digital marketing agency Omnicore noted that “American Twitter users are more likely to be Democrats than Republicans,” which suggests that Twitter's new “downvote” tool is yet another scheme to shut conservatives up.
An October 2020 Pew Research analysis reported that “just 10% of users produced 92% of all tweets from U.S. adults since last November,” and “69% of these highly prolific users identify as Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents.”
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They’ve not learned anything from facebook’s dive. Oh well.
Why do conservatives even give these guys accounts and business?
Trump tweets were always filled with hundreds of rancid replies. Twitter is dead.
A nerd site called Slashdot https://slashdot.org has users downvote you so you cannot post more then a certain number of messages every month.
This is the REAL reason for AI.
Automate controlling the message worldwide.
It is costing them lots of $$$ to hire trolls to monitor every social media and communications.
Five years ago, they started implementing it and doing testing.
Leave it to lefties so set up feedback avenues for cowards.
Looks to me that people are going elsewhere.
Most of the ‘users’ of the two listed below are bots and not real people.
Twitter went from $77 to $36 in the past year.
Facebook from $378 to $226. They dropped so far in the past month about 32%!!!
I’m glad I gave up on Twitter.
I never started tweeting or facebooking. I don't think I have missed out on anything.
Yes, the Twittsewer is INDEED dead.
I lost my primary account a couple of months ago for making fun of Floppin' LeeBrown Jimmy, bassetball sportshero.
I haven't bothered to restore it by giving the Twittsewer rats a real phone number and deleting the tweet that was TRUE.
The "prolific Demoscat tweeters" are mostly children who are paid to maintain the blue-check social media accounts of their famous employer-influencers.
Its a sewer.
I haven’t either.....Actually FR is the only presence I have personally on the Internet.
Lots of kiddies on the social media sites....you can always tell when the weekend arrives and or kids are out of school.
Twitter/facebook/google/youtube and all the others have as their corporate goal the promotion of leftist views and the suppression of normal peoples’ thoughts. Not profit. If they ever lose money with their business model, rich leftists will make up the difference.
So the internet giants all are working for the democrats.
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Bring it down.
Twitter itself started shadow banning me in the fall of 2017. My account had been vibrant up until then and suddenly no one saw anything I did or knew that I was there. You could start a new account, but they would catch you within three days.
Later they watched everything, any favorite or bookmark, any follow, and if they were in doubt, you got shadowbanned even if just lurking, based on what you read. It’s way more insidious than mentioned here. Everyone should avoid that thing.
I know that Disqus also shadow bans. They have admitted it.
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