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posted by LaminatorX on Monday November 10 2014, @03:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the better-than-detention dept.

Atheist vlogger Thunderf00t reports that Jordan Owen, Slade Villena, and Mykeru were "all suspended from twitter for no reason." Jordan Owen is the co-producer of the documentary The Sarkeesian Effect, a critique of the methods of controversial vlogger Anita Sarkeesian. Mykeru is the producer of The Block Bot and the Dumbification of the Beeb, a critique of the BBC Newsnight segment "Talking to the Twitter Trolls and those Who Study them". Slade Villena is a former writer for Gamasutra and the founder of indie game developer Rogue Star Games.

Thunderf00t himself was suspended from Twitter for two weeks in September for unclear reasons. At that time Twitter had also banned the account of "The Camera Lady", the researcher for a video series accusing award-winning developer Phil Fish and the Independent Games Festival of racketeering.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Monday November 10 2014, @06:13AM

    by frojack (1554) on Monday November 10 2014, @06:13AM (#114421) Journal

    you need Twitter, You Tube, and Facebook for the marketing.

    No, you don't. In fact spending time on that guarantees you will "make it small", because nobody that matters spends any time at the navel gazing trough of twitter. It gets far more people into career threatening trouble than it helps.

    Oddly even junior high kids are starting to get this, even then the 20 somethings are still waiting for the tweet that will change their lives.

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  • (Score: 2) by Common Joe on Monday November 10 2014, @07:04AM

    by Common Joe (33) <{common.joe.0101} {at} {gmail.com}> on Monday November 10 2014, @07:04AM (#114429) Journal

    The Wait But Why Article I suggested was interesting if you haven't read it. Disclaimer: I am not affiliated Wait But Why, but I am a regular reader.

    What would you suggest for Wait But Why? As a person who wants to better target people for my own personal stuff, what do you suggest for me? (Note: The stuff I want to peddle is not associated with my Soylent News name "Common Joe".)

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 10 2014, @02:19PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 10 2014, @02:19PM (#114502)

      Well, from that article I gather Twitter in particular isn't relevant (YouTube wasn't even listed). Facebook, OTOH, provided a big part of the pie.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by FatPhil on Monday November 10 2014, @09:20AM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Monday November 10 2014, @09:20AM (#114450) Homepage
    It's all context dependent. Those for whom social media is an important part of what they actually do have more of a reliance on social media, and get more back from social media. You appear to be deliberately ignoring those, and GPP is deliberately focussing on those. Whilst it would be nice to pretend that your view is the better one, there's so much out there that has become part of the self-fulfilling social media prophesy, you really can't ignore it.

    Well, I can, but I'm not constantly craving attention.
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