[Source] Last week, in my post “Yeah, I Got Scammed,” I mentioned that every year, on the anniversary of 9/11, I Tweet out many (100 plus) memes, short videos, and links pertinent to 9/11. The problem is that, starting in 2021, Twitter began an extreme shadowban against me.
According to Microsoft Edge’s AI tool, Copilot, the number of views an un-retweeted Tweet gets should equal about 15-20% of the person’ followers. Screenshot:
Based on this, since I have over 25,400 followers, I should be getting around 4,000 to 5,000 views on average—many more if a posting is retweeted.
However, my un-retweeted Tweets are pretty consistently limited to from 170 to 220 views. In other words, as soon they hit around 200 views, Twitter/X automatically shuts them off, preventing them from being further seen in the feeds of my followers. If they get retweeted by some of the few people who saw them, the views rise, occasionally by a few hundred. This means Twitter/X is acting in bad faith toward their own subscribers, blocking my Tweets for more than 95 percent of the people who requested to follow me. And I believe that X’s algorithm is set so that the only individuals who see my Tweets are people who have few followers, or are shadowbanned themselves. Thus if something I post does gets retweeted, it won’t go far anyway—there will be no ripple effect.
It was the same this year with my 9/11 Tweets. For me, gone are the days of getting hundreds of retweets.
So I’ve decided—even though it’s a week late—to reorganize these 9/11 Tweets into a blog post. At least that way, someone gets to see them. By September of next year, who knows if the Internet will even still be around as we know it?
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