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Is twitter really deboosting?

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Juells · 31/08/2019 16:20

Over the last week or so I've seen numerous people I follow saying that they're being deboosted. I just checked myself and it looks like my account is deboosted. I find it a bit hard to believe, though - I follow just 20 or 30 accounts, and have few followers, why would twitter bother deboosting my replies to tweets?

I'm wondering if this is some kind of scam, that when you use the so-called test it just tells everyone they're deboosted? Just for the fun of it Grin

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Voice0fReason · 31/08/2019 23:02

Oh, and a nobody like me is on Terfblocker, simply due to Follows.
You can absolutely find yourself on terfblocker simply because you follow known feminists.

ErrolTheDragon · 31/08/2019 21:15

Thanks zebra.

Sheesh.

zebrasdontwearbras · 31/08/2019 20:36

We are on Twitter.

The admin seem to have been infiltrated by TRA - when McKinnon and Prior have been banned, people have pulled strings to get them re-instated, and talked about "knowing someone in twitter admin."

Unbelievable that the likes of Yaniv roam freely on twitter, but women are silenced.

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Juells · 31/08/2019 20:23

I'm either on terfblocker, or huge numbers of posters have been banned, as every thread I look at (like the Devon Rape Crisis thread) is full of tweet unavailable notices.

Women really are being silenced, aren't they?

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VickyEadieofThigh · 31/08/2019 19:41

I'm deboosted. Twitter has also enables some accounts to hide replies - for example, the vast number of negative replies Devon rape crisis centre got to their tweet advertising for a self-identifying woman (sic) - I can't see any of them now.

zebrasdontwearbras · 31/08/2019 19:27

Erroll:

Reply Deboosting
If Twitter's signals determine that an account might engage in harmful behavior, Twitter hides their replies behind a barrier and only loads them when "Show more replies" is clicked. This behavior is personalized, i.e. Twitter does not hide the tweets of accounts you follow. We therefore use an unbiased reference account without followings in order to determine whether tweets within a thread can be retrieved without clicking "Show more replies" from its view.
In some cases, Twitter classifies tweets or accounts in a way that their tweets show up within the section for offensive replies. In this case, replies are hidden behind a second barrier within the "Show more replies" section.

You can see if you're deboosted here shadowban.eu/

ErrolTheDragon · 31/08/2019 18:49

What is 'deboosting', please? I don't suppose I'm not the only person who doesn't know what this means (google is giving me hits about slowing down rockets)

zebrasdontwearbras · 31/08/2019 18:31

Yes, I get exactly the same as your screenshot, juells.

I have been de-boosted for no other reason than either being gender critical, or on terfblocker. I've never been reported, or had a warning from twitter, so I don't know what else it could be.

littlbrowndog · 31/08/2019 18:14

Am on terfblocker. I just follow

OhGodWhatTheHellNow · 31/08/2019 18:04

Oh, and a nobody like me is on Terfblocker, simply due to Follows.

OhGodWhatTheHellNow · 31/08/2019 18:03

You can enter other user names in to see if you get the same result, there has been some experimentation:

twitter.com/hatpinwoman/status/1167260354449162240

Doyoumind · 31/08/2019 17:55

Aren't there claims that it's linked to those listed on terf blocker? I'm not sure that can really be true though. Are you blocked at all? You can be simply based on who you follow or like. I'm not blocked because I tend to lurk on Twitter and I search for people rather than following officially so it allows me to see everything.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 31/08/2019 16:30

I think the analysis is based on the last reply you made, not the sum total of all of your replies.

Twitter seems pretty fucked at the moment in general though, so it may just be a glitch.

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Juells · 31/08/2019 16:21

Here;s my result

Is twitter really deboosting?
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