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I have endured SEVERAL instances where my tweets are missing from the stream. I hold a number of accounts, all legitimate, none are spam or pornbots, and all but one have been used to tweet either political or financial commentary. None of the accounts ever tweet more than twice a week.
How do I know I'm being censored and it's not a technical issue on my end? The one account that does not tweet finance or politics, used from the same computer around the same time and with the same volume, is never blocked.
The others are always blocked from the stream now, even if those accounts tweet non-provocative content.
Be warned: critique the wrong politician, fascism in Israel, or wonder aloud whether certain telecom giants are screwing us intentionally, and you will certainly not be allowed to speak on Twitter much longer, no matter how many followers you get because of it. Funnier still, they sure do make a lot of noise about censorship in China. A very self-righteous and self-serving bunch at Twitter, methinks.
So yes, Twitter blacklists accounts that it finds making even one provocative statment. Does this explain the waning interest in Twitter? Or is it just that competitors within every social media service around has either appropriated and integrated their technology as their own? Perhaps people are simply just growing tired of the whole enterprise and the marketing hogwash that comes with it.
Just a guess, but Twitter appears to be following Digg and Myspace straight into the pile.
Meanwhile there are Wall Street whales trying to figure out a way to get their money back out of this thing. Not going to happen.
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Re: Twitter censorship
