My response to a political post got shadowbanned on Twitter within an hour

I posted a reply to some politician's tweet about free healthcare yesterday, nothing extreme just sharing my own experience with a bill. Within 60 minutes my account was shadowbanned and I couldn't even see my own tweet unless I logged out. I went back and counted 4 other replies in that thread that were all still visible with way more controversial stuff. The weird part is the notification that my tweet was reported came 3 days later, not the same day. So they just hid me without any warning first. Anyone else had that happen where the ban notice shows up way after the shadowban?

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dakota_singh3925d ago

My buddy Mark had this exact thing happen with a post about veterans healthcare. He shared a screenshot of a VA bill he got that had a mistake on it, just asking if anyone else saw errors like that. Shadowbanned in like 45 minutes. The weirdest part was he checked his email and the "your post was reported" notice showed up 2 full days later. He counted 7 other comments under the same post that were way more aggressive, like calling people names and stuff, and none of them got touched. Mark even made a new account just to test it and his original tweet was still completely hidden for 4 more days before it randomly popped back up. It's like they run some bot that targets specific keywords and just auto-hides anything that hits them, then the human review comes way after the fact.

taylor30525d ago

Yeah, I've been through that exact mess myself, it's infuriating.