There's a secret list of Twitter VIPs whose accounts and tweets are getting boosted over everyone else's. And @zoeschiffer got it https://www.platformer.news/p/the-secret-list-of-twitter-vips-getting
Casey Newton
There's a secret list of Twitter VIPs whose accounts and tweets are getting boosted over everyone else's. And @zoeschiffer got it https://www.platformer.news/p/the-secret-list-of-twitter-vips-getting 15 comments
Hogwarts Legacy
@caseynewton @josephramoney @zoeschiffer someone didn’t read the article. why would you block Lebron, AOC and Biden?
MastoDon Juan
@hogwartslegacy @caseynewton @josephramoney @zoeschiffer the better question is: why wouldn't you?
MastoDon Juan
@josephramoney @caseynewton @zoeschiffer the block feature on Twitter never fully worked for me. I would still occasionally see tweets from "blocked" accounts somehow.
Grant McConnaughey
@caseynewton @zoeschiffer “catturd” is deemed one of the 35 most important people on Twitter. Jesus Christ.
Adam Cook
@grantmc @caseynewton @zoeschiffer By design. Musk is over there *right now* signal boosting anti-trans garbage, the type that catturd ships near-hourly. Twitter is likely signal boosting AOC and Biden, in large part, so that Musk-controlled "Twitter Community Notes" can "fact check" them asymmetrically.
Leisureguy
Elon Musk has proved to be a serial liar, and apparently a compulsive liar. He clearly is not a person to be trusted.
jxn
@caseynewton @zoeschiffer part of the secret sauce that mastodon's missing by not having a curated algorithm. :thaenkin:
TheStormcrow
@caseynewton @zoeschiffer And I thought all the cool kids left twitter. Same players, same old game. |
@caseynewton @zoeschiffer
the answer obviously is to block all those motherfuckers