Yep, it didn't last long - I complained. Or rather, I wrote them : "I think you suspended my account because I called a fictional soap opera character a bimbo?"
Several hours later..."Oops. You are right. We looked into it. This was done in error. Our sincere apologies."
I'm guessing someone on Twitter got upset and flagged me. People are weirdly sensitive about some words and not others. Bimbo = "frivolous female", it's not that bad. People are called worse things on Twitter.
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Right now - they are doing polls on whether anyone will pay for Twitter. Answer? Nope. (I don't pay for social media, and apparently everyone else agrees with me.)
Musk took the company private, but it doesn't mean anything from a user standpoint. I think he did it because he thinks it's the platform that major things are discussed. I don't know...we'll see.
I find the whole thing amusing. There's been a flood of liberal folks who left FB for Twitter, back to FB (which technically has the same issues). And a flood of folks who left DW for Twitter back to DW. And soap twitter (who hates FB) is contemplating jumping over to FB. LOL!
I don't know why these billionaires buy these platforms. If it's because they think they can control the internet or internet discourse, I got news for them - it's too late to try that. We have too many platforms, and ways around it. I mean hello, the dark net. The time to regulate the internet is long gone.
Also, people can have discourse without using their platforms. And folks can create their own. (See Dreamwidth).
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Several hours later..."Oops. You are right. We looked into it. This was done in error. Our sincere apologies."
I'm guessing someone on Twitter got upset and flagged me. People are weirdly sensitive about some words and not others. Bimbo = "frivolous female", it's not that bad. People are called worse things on Twitter.
***
Right now - they are doing polls on whether anyone will pay for Twitter. Answer? Nope. (I don't pay for social media, and apparently everyone else agrees with me.)
Musk took the company private, but it doesn't mean anything from a user standpoint. I think he did it because he thinks it's the platform that major things are discussed. I don't know...we'll see.
I find the whole thing amusing. There's been a flood of liberal folks who left FB for Twitter, back to FB (which technically has the same issues). And a flood of folks who left DW for Twitter back to DW. And soap twitter (who hates FB) is contemplating jumping over to FB. LOL!
I don't know why these billionaires buy these platforms. If it's because they think they can control the internet or internet discourse, I got news for them - it's too late to try that. We have too many platforms, and ways around it. I mean hello, the dark net. The time to regulate the internet is long gone.
Also, people can have discourse without using their platforms. And folks can create their own. (See Dreamwidth).