Thread by @_centrists_

@jack JACK, WHAT THE F U C K? Right now, all I'm trying to do is download my own tweet archive. As in MY OWN EFFING TWEETS. Something any sane person will agree that I'm entitled to.

@jack Twitter is sabotaging my efforts to do so, as part of this grand new design that got rammed down my throat a few days ago, with the option to revert to Legacy Twitter having been removed from my account.

@jack I finished up my last few moments, everything taking far longer to do than it should have, because of the ugly, poorly thought out non-upgrade that nobody wanted, but which is going to be forced on all of us, just so the developers can have something to do.

@jack And so you can do a press release.

And you know what, Jack? Fine. It's a dumb, destructive thing for you and your staff to have done, but you do you, AS LONG AS MY RIGHTS ARE RESPECTED.

They. were. not.

@jack All I wanted to do was finish up what I was in the middle of, save my content and walk off - and that's what you're not letting me do. Save my own content.

Using the usual workaround, I was able to request my tweet archive.

@jack But when I went to download, what a wonderful surprise awaited! Since I get bounced back into New Twitter every time I follow a link into Twitter, there was no way to avoid a charming feature of that new design.

The tweet archive download page has been removed.

@jack When I follow the link in the letter YOUR OWN SYSTEM just sent me, I end up on a page that doesn't exist.

Your system is set to refuse me access to MY OWN F U C K I N G tweet archive.

@jack I remind you, Jack, of your own TOS. Twitter agrees that our content belongs to us. I am trying to save something THAT IS MINE, according to you and your own company, so HOW DARE YOU block me from doing so?

@jack Are you actually trying to see how angry you can make us? How far you can push us before we push back?

This is breach of contract, Mr. Dorsey. It is not OK. It is NOT something that you have the right to engage in.

@jack Were you raised by wolves? What is wrong with you?

Are you looking for a fight? Why would you stand in the way of a user who just wants to recover his own content and leave without a fuss? Do you live for trouble?

Because that's the only explanation I can find for your actions.

@jack Are you insane? You basically just flipped the bird to over a hundred millions people, daring us to sue you, while accomplishing NOTHING.

How is this a business driven decision. This wasn't just sleazy, it was inexplicable.

@jack Even for the company that cozied up to the literal Nazis, this was bizarre. At the very least, it's going to damage your reputation.

This wasn't just wrong. It was gratuitous.

@jack

@jack Bad news, Jack. No thanks to Twitter, and certainly no thanks to the bloggers who wrote endless amounts of nonsense about methods one could use to revert one's account to Legacy Twitter, with the help of a close friend, I was able to find a solution to the problem you caused.

@jack The real solution to this problem that Twitter maliciously inflicted on at least some of its users was simple.

The forced "upgrade" to New Twitter is browser specific. My friend was using an older browser, which I will leave unnamed here.

@jack He let me use his computer and that browser, and sure enough, everything seemed to come over just fine. You know, the way downloads work on sites run by people who aren't being deliberately toxic, evil and horrible.

@jack Why are you being like this? Well, after a few years of discovering just how many different ways I could get slurred on social media and watching Support clutch at straws looking for any excuse to side with the people posting the Hate, I could hazard a darned good guess.

@jack There are over 30 million different reports of anti-Semitic incidents on Twitter, alone. There are less than 15 million Jews on the planet.

Dealing with the Nazis on this platform gets exhausting, and one soon picks up on the fact that Support is on their side.

@jack No need to even guess as to why, because when they're off the clock, people in your profession do love to talk about ever silly idea they get.

@jack One of them is that the poor, downtrodden white neckbeards of Silicon Valley and elsewhere aren't getting sex with the hot white girls they just know would normally be jumping their bones, because of an evil Jewish conspiracy to "get black men on top of white women"

Direct quote

@jack I am not making that up. I've really been angrily confronted with that accusation by people who never seem able to explain how they know this, or where this mysterious Semitic power over women supposedly came from.

@jack Pity, because some of my friends would probably like to know more about that power, judging from how they fare on the weekends.

"Oh, who shall I date, mysterious man of the sands?"

"Me?"

"If you think that would be best."

"Uh, sure?"

Does that sound like real life to you?

@jack How do you guys not get that these conspiracy theories are crazy? But I guess you guys want your scapegoats, because while self-improvement takes work and self-denial, being a creep is easy.

@jack The strange mangling of my tweets and profile in the Internet Archive did not escape my attention. More cutesiness from Twitter have anything to do with that, Jack?

Well, I had the foresight to use more than one archive, so what I saved will stay saved. Sorry (not sorry), buddy.

@jack For what it's worth, Dorsey, while I will be ending my active engagement on Twitter on my (reasonable) terms, not your spiteful ones, Twitter has been, by far, the most messed up experience I've ever had on the Internet.

At least there's that? 🤷‍♂️

@jack Rest assured that I will not forget this, and neither will your reputation. Because your staff has made a habit of treating marginalized people like this, and there are going to be a lot of people telling stories like the one I just got done living.

@jack Because you just had to be a jerk.

@jack Time to post a corrected version, because Twitter thinks editing is evil. 🙄

@jack No need to even guess as to why, because when they're off the clock, people in your profession do love to talk about every silly idea they get.

@jack All that, just to add a y, Jack.

@jack Having learned what to expect from the staff on this site, I'm immortalizing this whole thead, @Jack,

archive.is/SmOFI

so if you were thinking as your employees often do, deleting or hiding tweets (and then lying about the content they censored), that game won't work.

@jack I've learned to never trust Twitter.

@jack unroll @threadreaderapp

@jack

https://twitter.com/_centrists_/status/1153559845737500672

@jack So this link will archive ...

https://twitter.com/_centrists_/status/1153559933348143105

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@jack

@jack ^ I jumped the video ahead to 0:36, where your company shows up.

Jack, you try to act like you don't know about this and you're not fooling anybody. Almost EVERYBODY knows about Twitter's "charming" little quirk.

@jack Which makes the drama I saw on this site about this non-event all the more amusing.

@jack People so eager to find fake Nazis, when the real ones are sitting right next to them, virtually speaking.

web.archive.org/web/2019072314…

Or processing the complaints made about the other Nazis.

@jack Mr. Dorsey - when I first started complaining about that download problem, I just assumed that it was a problem every user who had been forced to switch to New Twitter was experiencing.

@jack Maybe the fatigue I was experiencing after spending ALL day dealing with Twitter's latest nonsense (and the meals I had missed while doing so) clouded my judgement.

@jack But then I noticed the way in which Twitter's login didn't work in Internet Explorer for me (a Jewish user), the way the form refused to let me enter my password, while another user who I know is using the same versions of IE and windows that I am wasn't having the same problem.

@jack Then I remembered the over two year period when I couldn't go for a day without being slurred, or a week without getting a death threat, and the way your employees kept locking my account every time I got dogpiled by the literal neo-Nazis on your site.

@jack Or when I would dare to speak out against an Alt-Right talking point.

This went on until I sat down and spent a lot of time just blocking every racist and hate poster I could find, making it harder for them to false flag my tweets.

Yes, I was being messed with, again.

@jack Here I was assuming that you had rolled out a new product carelessly, but without hateful intentions, but no, Twitter was just being Twitter, again, wasn't it?

You'd think I would have learned, by now. Better late than never, I guess.

@jack This is where I start cutting links to Twitter, stop mentioning your site on any blog post listed with the search engines, let @IFTTT start doing my talking for me, and wondering if your staff will use my use of @IFTTT as a pretext to lock my account.

@jack @IFTTT Lock it again, using the usual excuse - the "detection of unusual automated activity" which "might violate Twitter's rules."

Somebody at my synagogue had his "unusual activity" detected while he was sound asleep, meaning that his lack of activity was detected as unusual activity

@jack @IFTTT Over two weeks later, Support has refused to even respond to his appeal.

So, I don't know what you're going to do when I go back to using Twitter the way I did in happier times, when all I used Twitter for was site update notification.

@jack @IFTTT But, if my slowly arriving handful of IFTTT tweets is enough to get me locked, let's not pretend that this will have been anything other than pretextual harassment, Mr. Dorsey.

Does @IFTTT not have a blue checkmark?

@jack @IFTTT Obviously, you do not feel that their service really violates their rules. Given the slowness with which I type, obviously I will not be posting new content through IFTTT often enough to set off any reasonably designed detector.

@jack @IFTTT But let's see what you're going to do. Let's see if you're man enough to pass on the opportunity to harass a user from a marginalized group one last time, after he has headed out the door.

@jack @IFTTT Who knows? Maybe you'll choose act like a human being, at that point, and get your supposedly rogue employees under control.

There's a first time for everything.

@jack @IFTTT But, let's not part company on a sour note. Let's enjoy a video of some of your more active users, at a sing-along.



I'm kidding, of course. They'd never sing a song like that. It was written by a Jew. We are everywhere. 😆