Posted on 08/05/2016 9:51:10 AM PDT by PingPongChampion
Saudi Prince, Alwaleed Bin Talal, became the second largest stakeholder of Twitter in 2015 after increasing his combined shares in the company to over 30 million. With his total holdings increased to 5%, his stake in the company has made him the second most powerful person at Twitter. Alwaleed's Saudi Kingdom was responsible for the spread of Wahhabism across the Middle East, which is the same dangerous version of Islamic ideology the Islamic State subscribes to. Even though Saudi Arabia has played a pivotal role in the fight against ISIS, forces inside the country have directly and indirectly sponsored global terrorism. It should come as no surprise then that Twitter has evolved into a platform that proactively seeks out and bans critics of Islam while acting as a sympathetic breeding ground for the continued spread of Wahhabism.
Twitter can't ban a million unreported people, but they can definitely weed out undesirable tweets and users with their new algorithm, which mimics Facebook's timeline by showing users what it thinks will interest them. The good old days of chronological posts and tweets are dead, even if you go into your account settings to untick the box that makes Twitter show you the “best tweets first”. If you untick that pre-ticked box and ask to be shown tweets in chronological order, Twitter will continue to bombard you with tweets that you “missed while you were away” and tweets you “might also like”.
(Excerpt) Read more at poletical.com ...
Maybe I'm crazy, but I don't see either one of those check boxes when I go into my account settings.
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