Thread by @ThyConsigliori

8 December 2020 - Broken Chain Update

The thread you see here, from yesterday, is 60 tweets long. I call these my long threads. I've done hundreds and hundreds. This one is broken. I will speculate why, below.

https://twitter.com/ThyConsigliori/status/1335930218486394882?s=20

2) If you read many long threads here at Twitter, you realize that they're actually designed to only go up to 31 tweets. There you have to hit a button that looks like this.

3) As a long thread writer, there are tricks of the trade you have to learn to prevent your threads from being broken. Each tweet needs to link to all the tweets above. I think my longest thread - and it was unbroken - was something like 160 tweets. I don't break threads.

4) This is where yesterday's thread got broken. I feel pretty certain that Twitter is NOT happy with @GenFlynn's message, forwarding @Rothbard1776's analysis.

https://twitter.com/ThyConsigliori/status/1335949199628754946?s=20

5) Funny thing, and I just checked, if you click on the embedded link above, and go to #37, you'll be able to scroll up and down through all 60 tweets. Twitter's shenanigans are often imperfect. I suspect they're designed that way, as most won't figure out the workaround anyway.

6) One more fact. I believe yesterday's entire thread took about 2 1/2 hours to compose and post, or so, maybe 3. The first tweet had, as you can see, the full @marklevinshow link that worked just fine when posted. Just after completion, the video was removed from YouTube.

7) It is a conceit for me to think I caused that, but, well, I am sometimes a bit of a conceited fellow. I think yesterday's thread lead to the rapid take down of the video. I'm probably wrong, but it's a fun thought.

8) If Twitter hadn't broken my thread at #37, I wouldn't have shared my conceit. Some of you will recall that a couple of weeks ago, I was slapped into Twitter Penalty Box for 3 different 12-hour punishments. I won't discuss the specifics, but I will guess at one thing.

9) It is public knowledge that Facebook has a team of Chinese Censors. It is public knowledge that Google works with China complying happily with every whim of the CCP. Who can imagine that Twitter doesn't also?

nypost.com/2020/10/20/mee…

10) So, my speculation is this. Twitter's Chinese Censors don't like either @GenFlynn or @MarkVSerrano. And they didn't like this particular tweet.

https://twitter.com/ThyConsigliori/status/1335949199628754946?s=20

11) Okay, I have to tell you just a little about how I got slapped into penalty box 3 times. Each time I tested it, and the 3rd time I got to the bottom of it. Revenge Porn is forbidden here at Twitter. It's a policy. Porn is okay, but not Revenge Porn. No kidding.

12) The 1st 2 times they penalized me, they didn't tell me why. Just a vague statement that I'd violated community guidelines and that I should behave myself better in future. The 3rd time they decided to fess up. Lying, they tagged a link I posted as if it were Revenge Porn.

13) Between the 3 times, and the testing I did, I was able to determine a broad category of links that are likely to get falsely tagged that way, and have not been penalized since. I have no question that there are Twitter Chinese Censors and that they don't like those links.

14) So far, every time I post #37, it continues to work. Why might that be? It's virtually impossible to pretend it breaks Twitter's community guidelines, as it does not in any way. So, just use it to break the thread, but that's all.

https://twitter.com/ThyConsigliori/status/1335949199628754946?s=20

15) So, in conclusion, let's continue to workaround Twitter's evil policies. Please do click on #37. And, if you enjoy my entire long thread, RT at least the 1st tweet. You might also RT #s 36 & 38 just for good measure.

Ha!

Broken Thread Update ends at #15.