Twitter - JKR 'likes' disappearing

[Apileofballyhoo]

Just a heads up, if you're on Twitter sporadically or just to give a like to JKR or people who have supported her, go back and check if any of your likes have disappeared and like them again. Mine disappear regularly, including Ickabog tweets I liked that just so happen to be of the same date that JKR tweeted about something else.

I'm not going to speculate about how or why these likes are disappearing. I don't think I'm the only person it's happening to.

I'm not a Twitter user but I have been following the JKR response. A hashtag many people have been using and apparently still using at a rate of multiple tweets per hour is "#IStandWithJKRowling' . It used to come up in the search bar when I started typing it out, but strangely now when you type it in, the only result you get pointed to is the variant "#IStandWithJKRowlings' - with the S on the end representing a hashtag with much lower tweet rate (only a handful from today).

A coincidence? Why would their algorithm only suggest a less-tweeted variant of a popular hashtag?

Interestingly Fred Sargeant has tweeted that he’s been noticing his follower numbers going down again shortly after any increase. He wasn’t going to speculate (because it could have been genuine) until followers contacted him to say they seem to have ‘unfollowed’ him even though they themselves categorically did not choose to unfollow.

I didn't use to have it, my likes/relikes etc. stayed put.

Then suddenly, I started noticing it happening on JKR's tweet, so I checked back on some others, and saw they were also losing their likes. Almost as if I was ignored until I got on some list.

I first noticed on liking rip4xnutmeg, that my like was disappearing, one day I checked 5 times, and every time it had gone.

I nearly started a thread, anything GC it seems to happen. But strangely enough not when I like something unrelated . . . . . .

I've just gone to check and your right.

All my JKR likes have gone....

I've reinstated them and will keep an eye out..

Treestumps

Same as me. Mine were fine until they weren't. I had just reliked all the 6th June ones, came on here to write this post, went back to Twitter and all my likes had disappeared. Including the ones on the children's drawings from 6th June, which is really unfair on them. If you look you can see that those drawings have fewer likes than drawings from the other days.

In the beginning I think it wasn't as obvious I was GC. I still don't tweet or retweet, just reply and like. People's retweets are disappearing too strangely.

Checked again, gone again. I'm also being asked daily if I'm a robot since my GC activity became more obvious. Even though I don't tweet or retweet, just follow, like and reply.

Has Twitter become the new Trust-pilot? We know how accurate they can be😊

I have to say I'm getting tired of it and feel like not bothering with it at all, but if somebody somewhere thinks my likes are important enough to delete I should probably keep checking and re- liking. It's a chore though and also makes me feel anxious and paranoid.

Interesting. I just checked and mine had Indeed disappeared. I’d only started being active a few days ago specifically to like her tweets and support her. Makes me feel a bit weird.

I'm also being asked regularly if I'm a robot.
I keep meaning to only post on other topics, and see if I have to prove who I am.
I too have never tweeted or retweeted

I’ve been a bit late to the twitter game, and now I’m wondering if I should be bothering at all... not filling me with much confidence.

Mine were gone again but I feel if I stop liking them or leave Twitter then 'they' win.

They're obviously trying to keep the number of likes for JKR's tweets below a certain number. I don't know if they just delete a whole load of them when it approaches that number or if I'm on a list.

The checking and re-liking is time consuming.

I've just gone on and followed and liked a few things.

I've also retweeted saying how great she is, and admiring the time and effort she's put in to children during lockdown.

Gone again. It's very unfair on the children whose pictures are 6th of June. Sinister as fuck that Twitter are manipulating likes.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but is it possible that Twitters algorithm automatically deletes likes and followers from accounts that don't tweet or retweet anything? It does look a bit suspicious if you're only liking JKR stuff and not doing anything else.

(Not to me, to an algorithm that's trying to stop people buying followers and likes)

No withGrace I have liked other stuff too, and they don't disappear.

Oh ok yeah you're right that is sinister then.

Just to say, it would be very simple to maintain a blacklist of tweeters and track and suppress interactions between the group. You could use the same group to identify hashtags that were trending more in that group than the other populations and suppress those too.

If you look at bot accounts you’ll see they do some liking and re-tweeting of random stuff before they become active on the accounts they’re really interested in. If you’re going on Twitter I would recommend doing some genuine interaction with people you know which should make you have a more robust experience.

I’ve been terf-blocked but none of my likes have been removed. I‘be been removed from following a few people which makes me think there’s something odd going on. However I’ve been convinced I’ve been muted a few times only to then get a reply.

It's just my 6th June likes that are disappearing several times a day, though my likes of JKR's other tweets sometimes disappear.

I do retweet the odd funny or general thing, and I've the odd comment on non GC tweets.

It's weird.

I've liked JKR's tweet from a while back, the love who you want type one, 21 times. The total number of likes on it peaked at £208k but now at £207k. Seriously fishy.

this one. just re-liked as yesterday's had gone. 22 times.

Overcome reality with making things look the way you want them to and then pretend nothing else ever existed. If you can't see it, it hasn't happened. While screaming at anyone and anything that lets reality seep out.

Common and very sad tactic, there's a lot of it about. It always reminds me of a toddler with their hands over their eyes, convinced that if they can't see you, you can't see them.

I think I must be on some sort of block list, there are lots of tweets I can't see these days. I guess because I followed Glinner?