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Is Trump personally blocking people on Twitter?
To quote John Gruber's commentary, related to the recent appeals court ruling whereby Trump cannot block people on Twitter:
With the absurd number of replies he gets with each tweet — thousands, if not tens of thousands — I can’t see why he even…
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Was Twitter "Throttling" certain political tweets in 2017?
Scott Adams claimed in Feb 2017:
You might have clicked on my misleading tweet to get to this page. I had to disguise the content so Twitter wouldn’t throttle it.
Here’s why…
This morning I tweeted a link to a great video that describes in detail…
user36356
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Has traffic in some hashtags "plunged" since Russia lost access to Twitter?
Russia has blocked access to Twitter and Facebook. Opinions vary as to why, but most speculate that it is to prevent the general public from knowing how the Ukraine invasion is going.
Today, I have seen a number of tweets that suggest this move has…
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Do Mormon teens practice "soaking" and "jump humping"?
According to this popular post on /r/facepalm, and again here
Some Mormon teens have convinced themselves that putting a penis in a vagina and then not moving is not sex. That's called soaking. Jump humping is when you get someone to jump on the…
Evan Carroll
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Did Trump tweet the most liked Persian language tweet in history?
Saeed Ghasseminejad (advisor to a foreign policy think tank) claimed yesterday:
This tweet by
@realDonaldTrump
with more than 100k likes is already the most liked Persian tweet in the history of Twitter. A strong show of support by Iranians…
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Is the Rogue POTUS Staff Twitter account an actual POTUS Staffer?
I have seen talk floating around regarding a twitter account claiming to be members of the white house staff.
https://twitter.com/roguepotusstaff
The account has all the appearence of legitimacy, but such a thing is obviously hard to believe and not…
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Did Twitter employees charge $15,000 for account verification?
Elon Musk publicity agreed to a statement made by a user that alleged, previously Twitter employees charged $15,000 for accounts to be verified.
Elon Musk Confirmed Employees At Twitter Previously Charged $15,000 To A User For The Blue Tick
The…
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Are Russian Twitter trolls exploiting the (Feb 2018) Florida school shooting?
According to Tech News World:
Within an hour of the shooting at a Florida High School last week, divisive messages began pouring out of Twitter accounts believed to be controlled by Russia.
At a rapid speed, messages began flooding Twitter using…
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Is Trump tweeting himself on realDonaldTrump?
I have heard that most of the politicians today have some employees who manage all the social media accounts like Facebook, Twitter, etc. and they don't post/tweet anything themselves.
I think that is reasonable but there are several sources that…
izlin
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Are Twitter censoring positive responses to President Trump's tweets?
This article quotes Mike Keen saying,
“The (anti-Trump) tweet that I replied to was deleted once mine started outpacing it in number of favorites and retweets. It was interesting to observe that once that tweet was deleted, mine stopped being…
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