{"id":6985,"date":"2018-09-05T23:53:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T23:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=6985"},"modified":"2018-09-05T23:53:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T23:53:53","slug":"twitter-gives-greater-visibility-to-those-with-a-verified-blue-check-mark-account-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2018\/09\/05\/twitter-gives-greater-visibility-to-those-with-a-verified-blue-check-mark-account-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter gives greater visibility to those with a verified &#8220;blue check mark&#8221; account status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giving greater visibility to those who have a &#8220;blue check mark&#8221;, this means everyone is equal but some are more equal than others:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But the program has come under fire because Twitter uses the blue check mark as a signal in ranking what tweets people see. In the past, Dorsey had said the program needed to be rethought<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/jack-dorsey-defends-twitter-against-conservative-bias-at-house-hearing\/\">Jack Dorsey defends Twitter from charges of bias against conservatives &#8211; CNET<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A lot of things about Twitter are starting to make sense:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Twitter used algorithms to shadow ban people, based in part, on who was following them. (This after denying they shadow banned people.)<\/li>\n<li>Twitter gives greater visibility to those with verified accounts.<\/li>\n<li>Twitter&#8217;s rules for determining who gets shadow banned or suspended are very complex to the point that few people actually understand them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Basically, Twitter is turning into Brownian noise or perhaps we should call it Blue noise (roughly the opposite of Brownian) for its emphasis on blue check marks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweets published by those with verified &#8220;blue check mark&#8221; accounts get greater visibility on Twitter. Twitter also admitted to using algorithms to shadow banning 600,00 accounts including those of U.S. Congressional representatives. Twitter is a mess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,24,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-in-practice","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}