I just got a promoted tweet about a chicken and bacon sandwich from a store in the UAE I thiiiiiiink twitter ad targeting might be not great
(I clicked why am I seeing this ad it it said the reason is not available..)
My twitter timeline this evening is a balanced mix of apocalyptic the world is definitely ending we won't survive the next ten years stuff, and silly jokes that make me lol.
For what it's worth, Twitter restored my account after a couple of days of looping through 'help' forms. Initially I was supposed to put a phone number in to restore it, but it wouldn't accept a Bosnian number. Each time I filed a support request I'd get an automated email telling me something I already knew, which I could reply to, which triggered another automated email telling me something else I already knew. Eventually I got one that said:
Your account is now unlocked, and we're sorry for the inconvenience.
Twitter has automated systems that find and remove automated spam accounts and it looks like your account got caught up in one of these spam groups by mistake.
I couldn't figure out what twitter rule I could possibly have violated (except maybe using a VPN left a flag?) and nor did they answer my appeals for why a Bosnian phone number is considered invalid.
I get home from a hard day of completely offline touristing and I just wanna see what happened on the internet before I go to sleep but oh no my twitter account is locked because I exhibited 'automated behaviour that may violate the twitter rules' like what I literally haven't been near a computer all day, is that the problem??
And now it wants a phone number but my phone is dead and I don't want to give them my number anyway grumble
I dunno what's up with Twitter in firefox the past few days but it's making my fan whiirrrrr and crashes every time I click on a tweet. It's fine in Chromium.
Probably a sign I should get off twitter and do something useful anyway.
Twitter DM is no longer an immediate way to reach me.
Made space for Signal. Ping me on Telegram (rhiaro) or IRC (rhiaro on Freenode and imaginarynet.org.uk) for my mobile number.
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Might just mute everyone who tweets about politics for a while. Or maybe just closing twitter would be less work..
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I got like 10 new followers during my Greyhound ordeal this morning. Maybe more likely that's actually due to the recent Solid media flurry than me complaining about buses, though.
Amy added https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/24/jack-monroe-i-want-to-be-treated-as-a-person-not-a-woman-or-a-man-interview-transgender-identity to https://rhiaro.co.uk/bookmarks/
SO much good stuff in one story, woah.
+ http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-to-think-about-bots
Amy added http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-to-think-about-bots to https://rhiaro.co.uk/bookmarks/
+ https://medium.com/@randileeharper/putting-out-the-twitter-trashfire-3ac6cb1af3e#.xobo0zujk
Amy added https://medium.com/@randileeharper/putting-out-the-twitter-trashfire-3ac6cb1af3e#.xobo0zujk to https://rhiaro.co.uk/bookmarks/
Let the records show that I will never click or tap the twitter heart icon. Apparently it explodes or something? Dumb. All twitter likes are henceforth (finally) fully automated via bridgy.
(And a million thanks to kylewm for spontaneous inclusion of error logs in bridgy profile pages!)
What does this mean? Is this a 'retweet responsibly' campaign?
When you re-discover someone you already follow in twitter and they're great and you wish you could follow them again.
Render reposts of tweets properly