{"id":5988,"date":"2016-07-22T22:56:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T22:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=5988"},"modified":"2016-06-28T22:56:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T22:56:57","slug":"linked-why-i-quit-twitter-and-left-behind-35000-followers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/07\/22\/linked-why-i-quit-twitter-and-left-behind-35000-followers\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Why I Quit Twitter \u2014 and Left Behind 35,000 Followers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/10\/insider\/why-i-quit-twitter-and-left-behind-35000-followers.html\">via NYTimes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>When I announced Tuesday that I would leave Twitter to the anti-Semites, racists and misogynist \u201cBernie Bros\u201d who had been threatening female reporters covering Hillary Clinton, something clicked in Twitter headquarters. Almost immediately, I began receiving emailed notices informing me that many of the accounts I had flagged had been suspended. I could not determine what criteria Twitter was using, why @thebadgoy, @annudahshoah and @grandpalampshade were determined to be abusive, yet @CapoReturns, @wolfe_fan (A.K.A. Terminus Est) and @goyimist were just fine.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mr. Goyimist recently bragged, \u201cThe best thing about a new #twitter account is getting re-blocked by all the faggots who blocked your old account. *rubs hands together*\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Social Media and being a part of a conversation is about trust, privacy and safety. If you don\u2019t feel any of those things, you go to another network. The fact that I have over 30 Twitter accounts isn\u2019t right and if it is, I should be able to validate why those exist and if my IP address and cookie (which I know Twitter injects in my computer via the browser) is being used by multiple accounts flagged for harassment, all of them should be banned. These tools aren\u2019t difficult to write.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter is to my experience, the best social network I\u2019ve ever used but it also was the worst when measured by the amount of anonymous trolls and hecklers compared to other networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via NYTimes: When I announced Tuesday that I would leave Twitter to the anti-Semites, racists and misogynist \u201cBernie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-08-30T23:55:54Z","apple_news_api_id":"b96e32f7-d266-4265-8df8-794f4e01cfc5","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-08-30T23:55:55Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AuW4y99JmQmWN-HlPTgHPxQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1yA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":448,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2009\/08\/03\/twables-fb140-gaming-the-system\/","url_meta":{"origin":5988,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Twables &#038; FB140: Gaming The System [UPDATED]","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"August 3, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Two weeks ago, I posted this blog post about Twitter and how the API is making it less user friendly and annoying new users. 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Witness Burger King saying \u201cTHIS WHOPPER BRUH,\u201d or IHOP telling us \u201cPancakes or you\u2019re basic.\u201d The account gets its name from the term \u201cbae,\u201d which\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5501,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/02\/16\/linked-stephen-fry-leaves-twitter\/","url_meta":{"origin":5988,"position":2},"title":"Linked: Stephen Fry Leaves Twitter","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"February 16, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via StephenFry: Oh goodness, what fun twitter was in the early days, a secret bathing-pool in a magical glade in an enchanted forest. It was glorious \u2018to turn as swimmers into cleanness leaping.\u2019 We frolicked and water-bombed and sometimes, in the moonlight, skinny-dipped. 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In a Twitter post late Saturday, WikiLeaks accused the social media giant of \u201ccensorship\u201d and gave its followers an online workaround, saying \u201ctry using https:\/\/archive.is.\u201d Living in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6743,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/03\/24\/linked-twitter-explores-subscription-based-option-for-first-time\/","url_meta":{"origin":5988,"position":4},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Twitter explores subscription-based option for first time&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"March 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via Reuters & Macrumors: Twitter is looking at providing a professional experience for people on TweetDeck that would pack in advance tools and features not found anywhere else on the service. 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