Thread by @DanPriceSeattle

For the last two weeks, I've been secretly muted from 99.9% of twitter.

Only people who follow me see my tweets. So when you retweet me, it goes into a black hole.

I even created two dummy accounts to verify this.

I have no idea why this is.

People will point out that I'm the CEO of a small payments company that competes with Square, which is led by Twitter's CEO.

I alerted Twitter multiple times to the issue and they said if I didn't like it, I could pay them to advertise.

I first noticed something was amiss when my follower count stopped growing. Then I noticed over 90% of my interactions were from followers - usually it's 50/50.

Being shadow-muted sucks but the bigger concern is how tech companies have power to limit your voice.

I've never tweeted anything remotely controversial from a Twitter "terms of service" standpoint and was never notified of any issues.

In any event, if you want your followers to actually see your retweets of me, you'll have to tweet it separately with a screen shot or something.

Here's some proof for those who think I'm making it up

https://twitter.com/DanPriceSeattle/status/1401961945322999816

I'll go back to my regularly-scheduled tweeting of companies paying CEOs $20M and laying off workers, but I appreciate you all letting me vent. Hope something changes but I really appreciate all of you who have chosen to follow me here. Now it's the only way to see what I say!