On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Griffin Boyce <[email protected]>wrote:
> Have you tried contacting twitter support directly? In the first > instance, it's likely that you were reported by someone who saw it and took > offense to it. I guess I should have, but now it's too late and I don't even have links to those tweets. I'll try to do this next time something like this happens > > As for having tweets reported for spam, > Doh! I wasn't thinking of that possibility. It would most certainly explain the N-word incident > it could have been a competitor (and that type of reporting is easy to > automate). But the Twitter spam algorithm could also have interpreted the > [short tweet length + link + popular hashtag] as being spam. > And I guess they wouldn't provide the "handbook" for this, so that spammers don't adapt to it. This is a perfect place to put political or commercial censorship patterns. No one would ever know :) > > > From a merchant perspective, we kind of operate at her majesty's > pleasure. By that I mean that social networks make the rules, enforce them > (or not), and our only real recourse is to move to another, less populated > social network. > A bit off-topic: I think a large "cloud" of indenti.ca/osub communities (e.g. run by NGOs, promoted by internet defense league or such) could become "populated" (as a whole - not on a single server) pretty fast (if the campaign catches) AND you can cross-post everything to your twitter/facebook etc. via apps, so it would echo into the existing socnets and promote migration. I'd recommend talking to twitter support before totally writing it off, > Like I said, I'll do it next time, while I still have the tweet's URL :) > but you might not get a resolution for the reasons mentioned above. > That's what bothers me the most. I think they should at least say why it was hidden (e.g. "was flagged by 6 users" or "automatically identified as spam"). If they can avoid answering THAT, it not only allows arbitrary censorship but it's a simple consumer problem: "sometimes it doesn't work and I don't know why", in other words - it's not a reliable service (an insult in a language even executives can understand). -- "Those Romans are crazy" -- Obelix
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