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Trump complains about Twitter removing his followers
US President Donald Trump complained Friday that Twitter is removing some of his followers and has made it harder to join, an apparent critique of the social network's efforts to weed out fake and abusive accounts.
Trump, who has some 55 million Twitter followers, revived his argument about "bias" by internet firms in a morning tweet[*] that suggested growth in his network was slowing.
[...] Trump's remarks appeared aimed at Twitter's efforts to weed out fake and "spam" accounts to improve the health and safety of the platform.
For months, Twitter has sought to eliminate automated and bogus accounts designed to manipulate the public conversation on Twitter, in response to concerns over Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Twitter said this week the number of active users fell by nine million in the past quarter as a result of these efforts.
Asked about the president's comments, a Twitter spokesman said: "Our focus is on the health of the service, and that includes work to remove fake accounts to prevent malicious behavior.
"Many prominent accounts have seen follower counts drop, but the result is higher confidence that the followers they have are real, engaged people."
[*] Tweet source:
Donald J. Trump on Twitter: "Twitter has removed many people from my account and, more importantly, they have seemingly done something that makes it much harder to join - they have stifled growth to a point where it is obvious to all. A few weeks ago it was a Rocket Ship, now it is a Blimp! Total Bias?"
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @11:28AM (4 children)
Every insane person already had an account, the sane will not create new accounts because they are sane, and all new registrations prior to this point were bots.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @11:30AM
PS: Insane here refers strictly to using social media in the first place.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Bot on Tuesday October 30 2018, @11:47AM (1 child)
> and all new registrations prior to this point were bots
SO FUCKING WHAT
Account abandoned.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @12:41AM
"I have the best bot followers ever, believe me! My bot audience is Yuuuge and ever growing, like that caravan of low-lives that Soros and Pelosi purchased on Ebay. So sad."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @12:11PM
Sounds like MDC's FB friends?
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @01:54PM (6 children)
Fuck this criminal psychopathic pussy-grabbing child-molesting miserable sack of puss.
And fuck all his disgusting followers, driven only by bitterness, anger and hate.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @02:09PM (2 children)
Informative? I can't tell whether this is hypocritical or sarcastic.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @03:10PM
All of the above?
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @03:24PM
I'm the OP and honestly, I'm puzzled by this as well...
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @07:15PM
FYI pus has one s. Trump is a bag of pus. If he were a bag of cats, he'd be less rotten, and we'd all be happier. If only!
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @07:45PM
allegedly child-molesting.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @09:46PM
Ok... so in other words, with the amount of hate spewing from your post, you should go fuck yourself?
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Tuesday October 30 2018, @02:10PM (5 children)
What is trump even doing posting on some pissy little private third party web site? So they are imposing their own rules? Well, cry me a frikkin river. What's that? You think Tweeter is some kind of public utility like roads or electric poles? Sorry, that is not the case.
Trump should get his own website. With blackjack! And hookers! Ah, forget the website. :P
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday October 30 2018, @03:22PM
Er...what would be a pissy little first-party website? A forum run by the government?
By the nature of it, 95% of stuff on the Internet is going to privately-owned. (It didn't start out that way, but hey.)
I wouldn't give him that much credit. More likely just a "they're being mean to me!" emotional reaction.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 4, Funny) by stretch611 on Tuesday October 30 2018, @04:04PM (3 children)
Well that sounds nice... but when hookers are involved, I have different requirements than our president does... For one, I expect hookers to actually screw people, not just pee on them.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @05:05PM (2 children)
Heck, I expect my hookers to actually be of legal age.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @07:24PM (1 child)
Where? in Thailand?
(Score: 1, Troll) by stretch611 on Tuesday October 30 2018, @09:10PM
Well Trump likes the Soviet hookers... Not sure of their age though...
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-comey-hookers-golden-showers-622604 [newsweek.com]
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/donald-trump-prostitutes-russia-report-9601118 [mirror.co.uk]
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @02:18PM (4 children)
Perhaps the US government should temporarily host a Gab server to prevent the deplatforming of a Twatter competitor, and publish to both equally.
The anti-free-speechers will wail and gnash their teeth, but they would do so anyway.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @02:46PM
In the case of Trump it should be a grab server.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday October 30 2018, @03:55PM (2 children)
It already does [whitehouse.gov], but Trump doesn't care to use it.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @07:27PM (1 child)
Followed your link and read Trump's remarks upon arriving in Illinois. Unbelievable.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Wednesday October 31 2018, @03:31AM
That was one of his more tame addresses. Seriously.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @04:18PM (2 children)
To anyone dumb enough to keep saying that Twitter is a "private company":
Prince Alwaleed Meets Twitter Management in New York [mideast-times.com]
When you are owned by a Saudi prince who was tortured by Blackwater for funding the 20th hijacker and a guy who was chopped up with a bonesaw for supporting the old regime's attempts to overthrow the new regime, you are not a "private company" but a branch of a government.
We also had a story here about Twitter's censorship technology in 2015. [soylentnews.org] They have been working to develop new censorship techniques and hide them from users for three years.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @11:43PM
Yeah, welcome to fascism. The government hides behind the "private" companies and thus the great loophole is born! Now, OFF WITH SOME HEADS!/s
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @12:00AM
Meh. That prince isn't in power anymore, and he may even be in custody (or dead). So his little visit six years ago is meaningless.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by mrpg on Tuesday October 30 2018, @04:21PM (2 children)
[Kids] observe how the selfish parents get their needs met by others. They learn how manipulation and using guilt gets the parent what he or she wants. They develop a false self and use aggression and intimidation to get their way.[13] Some of the most common issues in narcissistic parenting are due to the lack of appropriate, responsible nurturing which ultimately contributes to a child’s feeling of emptiness, insecurity in loving relationships, imaginary fears, mistrust of others, identity conflict and inability to develop a distinct existence from that of the parent.[14]
Barely related, isn't it?
Children of narcissists [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by crafoo on Tuesday October 30 2018, @06:07PM (1 child)
Really interesting, this describes many people I knew growing up. All children of Boomers. And wow, if you think they fuck their own kids up, talk to someone who had boomer parents _and then_ narcissistic boomer in-laws.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @06:52PM
I think zis gets to zee very heart of your problems. I am thinkink you should come back, zit on ze little couch and twoooly get in touch weeth your repressed memories.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mrpg on Tuesday October 30 2018, @05:37PM (4 children)
For the love of Michio Kaku hug your kids!!!!
You see what happens when you don't?!?!
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Tuesday October 30 2018, @07:11PM (3 children)
Does paying a nanny or service to do it for you count ?
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge
(Score: 2) by mrpg on Tuesday October 30 2018, @08:30PM
A caregiver... not ideal I think.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_theory [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @12:03AM (1 child)
That depends, is she a naughty nanny? That's what turned Freddie Mercury into a lover of Fat Bottom Girls.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Wednesday October 31 2018, @05:34AM
MMMMmmmm Halloween, time for Naughty anything costumes. I do love me some Halloween.
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @10:22PM (1 child)
Sign up for Twitter, preferably on a fresh device. Better yet, do this on two devices, one to be conservative and one to be liberal.
For the conservative one:
First note that twitter suggests several liberals for you to follow. This is plainly insulting. Ignore that. Immediately follow a bunch of conservatives. Go with Trump for sure. You can also try Laura Loomer, Candice Owens, Diamond and Silk, Kayne West, Louder with Crowder, Rand Paul, Bannon, Ted Cruz, Ben Garrison, Dinesh D'Souza, James Woods, Thomas Sowell, Mark Dice, Malik Obama...
Good luck keeping that account. You are likely to get banned even if you don't tweet anything at all. It shouldn't take more than a day, but retweet a few things if you get tired of waiting. Also, keep an eye on who you are following. You will most likely have people removed from the list that you are following, that it if your account survives long enough.
For the liberal one:
Do likewise. You won't get banned unless you use the NPC avatar. (you can't even create your account with that one) Heck, right now there are well over a hundred death threats against our president, and Twitter evidently thinks that is just fine.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @12:06AM
Wow ... sounds like you've spent a lot of time dreaming up this fantasy. Not surprising for someone who subscribes to Trump's "I'm a victim! Unfair!!" philosophy of "I need to be treated special!".
(Score: 2) by fadrian on Wednesday October 31 2018, @04:01AM (1 child)
Why doesn't he sign up with Gab? I hear they're always looking for a few good malcontents.
That is all.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Wednesday October 31 2018, @05:37AM
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge