To have a hashtag trend, there has to be massive amounts of people using it. Massive amounts of people are. CONSERVATIVE PEOPLE.
Conservatives have been targeted by Twitter in a massive #LockOut of their accounts. How do we know it’s only conservatives being targeted? Because there are NO PROGRESSIVES USING THE HASHTAG!!!
This is exclusively an attack on conservative accounts. The rumor is that this is to “clear out bots.”
Really? There are NO BOTS on the left??????
People are reporting losing thousands of followers in this purge. Some say the followers will be back and it’s only reflecting the people who have been locked out. (To get back in you have to provide a phone number and a code will be texted to you.) Now Twitter has your phone number.
Again, where are the progressives complaining about this???
Yah know correct me if I’m wrong headed here, but what kind of financial impact, on this joke of a business model here, would be felt if all conservatives bailed? 10% for week would hit hard. 20% for a month would not be good. 30% for a month would most likely bankrupt them. Think traffic. Someone should organize a twitter boycott. I promise you it would be epic.
B-B
I am in a perpetual twitter boycott. Never used it, never will.
When you’re proud you do not use something – that’s like saying I never voted – never will.
https://iotwreport.com/a-very-important-speech-by-pamela-geller-in-dc-that-concerns-everyone-reading-this-blog/
Mr pinko. So back to my original post here. You want to kill them. All conservatives boycott for 30 days.
Before I get COMPLETELY FRUSTRATED and PISS OFF EVERYBODY on this SITE – READ and WATCH the FOLLOWING BY PAMELA GELLER.
https://iotwreport.com/a-very-important-speech-by-pamela-geller-in-dc-that-concerns-everyone-reading-this-blog/
Mr. Pinko – maybe i have a life that doesn’t revolve around twitter.
But you can proudly Twitter away all you want.
@Mr.Pinko (at 3:18 am): I am proud that I never had to resort to using an online dating service (or any other kind, for that matter). How is that like saying I never voted?
Just asking.
I don’t use social media. We let Google, FB, Twitter and Youtube creep up on us as media platforms.
Be that as it may, they now are powerful media to get messages out. In many ways, more efficient, and certainly cheaper than billboards, advertisements on TV, radio, newspapers because of the “reach”, the vast numbers of users, including the other media.
At this point, these things have to be regulated as utilities. I don’t like regulations, but I see no other way. Frankly, if these things countered by starting to charge for their services, that wouldn’t bother me a whole lot either. It would cut down on their “reach”.
You know, Twitter, et al., are starting to sound more and more like big monopolies. Maybe the Trump Administration needs to blow the dust off of some of the anti-trust laws and start applying them.
https://www.justice.gov/atr/antitrust-laws-and-you
If enough Conservatives Tweeted their Congresspersons and POTUS…
Oh, wait —
😉
https://www.justice.gov/atr/antitrust-laws-and-you
If Trump stopped tweeting it would break up Twitter pretty good.
The left is all about being underhanded in every situation. They have weak or no valid responses to apposing arguments so they revert to deception and emotional manipulation. This is standard fare for all their views.
What I can’t understand, as a Twitter spectator, is how Twitter can selectively, and to great effect, throttle or boot conservative users , yet Twitter whines impotently about overseas twitter “bots” flooding their platform with fake news and opinions. Since it appears that Twitter will never be regulated into fairness, perhaps it is time to find ways to subvert and sabotage Twitter from the inside. I would sign up for Twitter in a heartbeat if I could be part of a serious disruption and was given instruction in how to do it. Otherwise, Bad_Brad’s boycott is the only option left, and I’m already doing that. Any ideas?
I lost about 150 followers last night. But in the last hour I regained about 50. It seems the people who followed me that I followed back that are now listed as not following me were “temporarily restricted.”
Real conservatives do not use this shit.
How about that? 😉
This isn’t the same as sitting at a lunch counter during segregation.
The restaurant didn’t get to brag to investors about how long the seats were filled.
Boycott them. Quit fucking advertising them in every newscast. Asking us to follow on Facebook and Twitter.
I don’t support people who hate my guts and would put me in an environmentally friendly gas chamber if they could.
I don’t have a Twitter account, but I do have President Trump’s site bookmarked, and able to read it anytime. Just can’t follow anyone or make comments – don’t see the need for that.
Obviously there is lots of silent traffic (non-members) out there…
Machloja, that’s a bit extreme. I feel like I am on the home front, watching my allies get mowed down as they charge up the same hill day after day, time after time, and never gain an inch of ground. Maybe it is time for a tactical withdrawal and reassessment.
If Twitter is as creaky and poorly underpinned as those former execs claim in the other Twitter thread on the front page here, it could have some vulnerabilities ripe for exploitation, and that may require a rightist army of Twitter conscripts to engage in a winnable war of attrition. Or we may just need our own John Boyd to get inside Twitter’s OODA loop. Any way you look at it, Twitter is a force to be reckoned with and dealt with harshly.
Twitter is run by liberals for liberals
You don’t like it sue them
Mr. Pinko – don’t despair. It looks like Q returned last night.
https://twitter.com/LisaMei62/status/966261447452971008.
@Jack getting nervous?
Is CPAC now just another Nevertrump storefront?
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/cpac-cancels-cpac-panel-social-media-censorship-blocks-tgps-jim-hoft-speaking-slurs-trump-supporters/
@Mr.Pinko February 21, 2018 at 3:18 am
> When you’re proud you do not use something – that’s like saying I never voted – never will.
Sometimes the epiphanies come late in life. But better late in life than later. Welcome.
I can see how fighting back could win the war for hearts and minds.
If I Twatted, I’d be pissed that I’m being blocked just because ____.
However, if the only Twatters were the typical loser left, how could Twitter pay it’s bills when their users don’t buy much (Air America, anyone)?
But since corporations think spending money to advertise to the decrepit, Twitter would survive just fine.
Seems like a conundrum.
TWEETER?! Is that thing STILL around?! 🙄
POTUS used Twitter to go around the MSM and speak directly to the people. If Twitter is no longer available to conservatives, how will he do this?
That’s why it is important to fight back.
@Thirdtwin February 21, 2018 at 8:34 am
> If Twitter is as creaky and poorly underpinned as those former execs claim in the other Twitter thread on the front page here, it could have some vulnerabilities ripe for exploitation
The challenge is what the frilliant, involuntary virgins, call the “network effect”. Some people buy into the technology, that a particular system uses, because they support that technology. Some people buy into some particular technology because it’s what some other people they want to interact with are already using, regardless of the technology’s merits. Then you have “and the rest”, that just want to be “in”, and don’t care about the technology or who, in particular is already using it. It’s the “it” that they want to be a part of. That requires “sizzle”.
Twitter (and Facebook, “and the rest”) are bolted together with “off the shelf” parts. There are even online videos showing the marginally interested how to assemble their own clones. But the new “it”, that’s a safe haven for all, won’t (initially) be as big as what it clones. And snowflakes always wanna flake. Always. So why would The Southern Poverty Law Center sign-up with someplace new, that also accepts a sign-up from The Daily Stormer? If you could convince all the non-flakes onto one, nut just different groups the flakes hate onto different, versions of the “there can be only one” network, you’ve only fragmented the market. A good thing from a utilitarian point of view. But it will never be the “it” 2.0. So it will never convince the “it” 1.0 rentiers to switch.
I’m going to repeat what I just wrote on Mr. Pinko’s post:
Here is the problem:
Twitter works because you have people that follow you. Those people have people that follow them. When you tweet, those people see your tweet and re-tweet it so their followers see it. It progresses until millions see your message.
Twitter is DELETING your followers. They have no idea that they no longer can see your tweets, thus they can’t re-tweet you. You have lost your audience.
Like Mr. Pinko said, it has nothing to do with your content. You are merrily tweeting away, all your tweets are still there, but others cannot see you.
I don’t have lots of followers, but I just lost 500 since last night. And I’m nobody. Imagine the big guys losing thousands. They are being silenced.
I know that many of you don’t use Twitter. But if you don’t care or fight back in this battle, they will move on to websites.
No more iOTWr.
What will you do then?
I signed up and used it twice on Trump’s twitter telling him how much we love him. I’ve been locked out. Oh well, there’s other places to get my point across – like here! GO TRUMP WE LOVE YOU!
If you’ve never done Twitter, you have no idea how hard it is to build a following. You can’t just walk away, close your account, boycott, then come back and start all over again. I’m a bit of a follow back stickler – lots of people follow you, then you follow back, and then they dump you. Those people get dumped. You go to the people that aren’t following you now and it says their content is restricted – unusual behavior – view at your own risk. The fascists at Twitter have found something they don’t like. You have to wait for Twitter to let them out of Twitter jail. We are at war with the left – it ain’t pretty – they like kicking people in the balls. Fighting fair doesn’t win the fight when the ref has been bought off by your opponent.
Maybe this is the time and place to drop this comment.
I recently applied for display ads with a company because we’ve been struggling. Bigly.
(had to remove some info here.)
They vetted us and returned notes.
They are partners with Google (I didn’t know this.) (They alllll are.)
Their condition before they would allow ads?
I have to censor your comments. They do not like what you guys are saying.
Hit home yet?
There are a few readers that know the behind the scenes trouble we are in, and I’m doing the best I can. I’ve been trying to explain what’s happening with these companies that control both the purse strings and the flow of information.
I never relied on Twitter or Facebook for growth, and it’s limited us in the long run but has helped insulate us from these attacks. That doesn’t mean I do not understand what they’ve done to other conservative sites.
It is frustrating to be kicked in the nuts by these lefty giants, it is more frustrating to have your own people think that because they don’t use Twitter and Facebook it doesn’t affect them.
It does.
Because when you wake up one day and your favorite blog is out of business, it affected you.
Some time this week Twitter will say, “Oh shit. Our bad. We had a bug crawl up our system (read ASS) and Twitter started deleting/un followin/blocking people right and right. We fixed it!” …Until the next time it happens.
BFH, what are the guidelines on that comment censorship or do they want all comments gone?
I don’t understand what the issue is with micro-communities that exist outside any predefined scope. If I’m an advertiser, it doesn’t matter what eyeballs buy my product. I’ll sell to a left, right, center, up, down, purple, black or blue. It doesn’t matter, ask any businessman. Limiting scope in any form is a negative.
They do not want profanity.
They do not want racist speech.
Transphobic speech.
Islamophobic speech.
Violent speech.
They want us to be a lefty site.
They’ve recommended switching to Disqus and using their automated censoring software.
The DOJ needs to come down hard on these companies for violating the First Amendment.
@a non a moose:
“Amendment I –
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
You will notice that the First Amendment ONLY protects you against Congressional laws, NOT against employers, companies, other individuals, etc. It’s a common misconception.
only protects you
@Claudia – well said. I don’t have many followers, but I lost 100 since last night.
XXXXXXXXXXX a day? Hell, I’ll send you XXXXXXXX dollars a day to get rid of the pop ups. It’s unbelievable how googlefacebooktwitter is able to squeeze guys like you into either complying or forcing you out of business.
joe, I think XXXXXXXXX too many readers have Ad Block.
In fact, I thought that I had enabled ads on this site. I just checked, and my recent update blocked it again. Unblocked this site now. I will have to keep an eye on that.
I can understand someone using blockers, but for reasons exactly like what is happening to iOTW I don’t. XXxXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX If I win Powerball tonight they will be able to drop the pop ups.
Goog is going to block any ads not approved by Goog Chrome.
That is supposed to happen on the 28th.
30-50% of any given audience uses Chrome.
March 1st might be called the day this blog died.
That would be a sorry damn day! Isn’t there somebody’s ass we can kick to help fix this? As a reader from maybe day 2, I’ll be a mad SOB if you are forced out!
Don’t use Facebook, tweet I don’t support the socialist ass .
@some anonymous bfh guy: Every time I go to Google (which I try to avoid unless absolutely necessary) to look something up, it nags me to make Chrome my default browser, and I have to tell it I’m not interested. Every time. And there’s no way to get it to stop asking. Grrrr.
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