Thread by @frodofied

I'm over the shenanigans.

Twitter wants you to believe their algorithm is an unbiased distributor of the tweets published by those you follow, that shadow banning doesn't exist, all suspensions are justifiable, and that they promote no particular political ideology.

Lies.

1/

For many, many months I have publicly complained about the fact that after publishing popular threads that were critical of Trump, supportive of Clinton, or just before or after important events that my account would take sudden, unexplainable nose dives in popularity.

2/

Usually these periods lasted from four to ten days and then my account would inexplicably return to baseline, which for me has been between 250,000 to 400,000 impressions a day.

During these periods my impressions will fall to as few as 35,000 a day.

3/

Normally I try to take these bans in stride, but the most recent one began around October 19th and it is still in effect.

I find this particularly offensive since it would suggest to me the most recent episode is meant to limit my impact in the two weeks before Midterms.

4/

Please check your analytics page and see if your account experienced a similiar trend.

This is wrong and it must be stopped.

5/

The attached analytics chart shows my daily impressions falling from 300,000 to what has been an average of less than 60,000 for now many days in a row. Notice the consistency of impression during the bans.