Saturday, January 9, 2021

Twitter Rarely Suspends Accounts - But Now We Know It Happens

Screendump from Twitter

If you have used Twitter for some time, you will probably already have met people who deal hatefully against you. You can report them, but Twitter rarely ever does anything about that. You can see that because the aggressor still has the account active even after you have received a receipt saying that Twitter acknowledges that the account broke their Terms of Service.

That can be quite frustrating because it infects the whole platform when there are people who keep being aggressive, and thus destroy the experience for others in this social network.

Trump Got His Account Suspended

The current President, Donald J Trump, actually got his account suspended after the riots against Capitol Hill on January 6th 2021. A long overdue decision as this man has been spreading hate ever since he ran his campaign for office - and even before when he spread lies about the birth of former President Barack Obama insinuating that he was not a 'real' American...

It is hugely positive to watch that there IS a limit to what you can say on Twitter. 👍

I have always insisted on being positive on both Twitter profiles. Both my Danish profile and my English profile are accounts that consistently insist upon good netiquette, and I have blocked many users who failed to respect the Twitter Terms of Service.

It is going to improve the quality of the Twitter platform that they limit the level of bad bahavior you can show online, so I applaud this.

What are your thoughts, dear readers?

Wishing all a good weekend.

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