Twitter Suspends Numerous Popular Accounts That Are Known For Stealing Tweets (buzzfeed.com) 52
An anonymous reader shares a report: Continuing its battle against the "tweetdeckers," Twitter suspended on Friday several popular accounts known for stealing tweets or mass-retweeting tweets into manufactured virality. @Dory, @GirlPosts, @SoDamnTrue, Girl Code/@reiatabie, Common White Girl/@commonwhitegiri, @teenagernotes, @finah, @holyfag, and @memeprovider were among the accounts that got swept up in the purge. Many of these accounts were hugely popular, with hundreds of thousands or even millions of followers. In addition to stealing people's tweets without credit, some of these accounts are known as "tweetdeckers" due to their practice of teaming up in exclusive Tweetdeck groups and mass-retweeting one another's -- and paying customers' -- tweets into forced virality. A Twitter spokesperson declined to comment on individual accounts, but BuzzFeed News understands the accounts were suspended for violating Twitter's spam policy.
Re:Frosty piss? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Frosty piss? (Score:4, Funny)
Wish there was a mod point for laughable irony.
The sad fact is that if social media loses viral impact beyond kitty pics, their stock prices will sink into the abyss from whence it came.
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It would be fine by me. Other people seem lost without it, and unable to think for themselves. I don't see any renaissance re-occurring after the bad actors leave, either.
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... if social media loses viral impact beyond kitty pics, their stock prices will sink into the abyss from whence it came.
If there was a Kickstarter I could donate to that would cause social media to fail spectacularly and disappear, I'd put in some money.
Social media is to Society... (Score:4, Insightful)
...as Bitcoin is to economies.
Fortunes are gained and lost on something that is intrinsically without value.
Reputations are gained and lost through shallow, ill conceived, and impetuous statements that, without social media, would have never been expressed.
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Bitcoin actually has classically-defined value. The lesson about that value is classic supply and demand.
The value of social media Is a different phenomenon. There are lots of lonely people in this world, who want to be heard, Consequentially, this means that they must also then put their lives into the contexts of others (some successfully, others not), and be prepared to defend themselves, for which most are quite ill-equipped.
If you accept that there are sheep, shepherds, and wolves in this world, the lo
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Society is not found on Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Society is made up of your neighbors, your church, your children, your parents, your friend, your colleagues, and even if you are poorest or the poor, the people you huddle around the fire with at night drinking your Boones Farm and Schlitz.
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But it is under attack by Facebook, Twitter et al.
Not by the companies itself. By your very friends, neighbours, church... well "society" itself.
It's subtle. But everyone posting "happy moments" builds expectations in others. Why doesn't my dinner look as perfect as hers? Why didn't my boyfriend propose to me with such an expensive ring? Why did we not go to Paris for honeymoon? Why don't I have such adorable kids? That builds up huge pressure! You feel like a failure because you compare your (pretty good)
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But everyone posting "happy moments" builds expectations in others. Why doesn't my dinner look as perfect as hers? Why...
If your life gets worse because there's something nice in someone else's, the problem is on your side of the fence. My brother makes a shitload more money than I do and outpaces about every perk I can buy myself. That doesn't remotely slow me down from enjoying what I have.
Real life example... Yes! Go ahead, help other being disappointed, too!
If you're disappointed in Paris because somebody else got a nicer picture of the Eiffel tower, you're Parising wrong. There are much better reasons to be disappointed with Paris. There are even pretty good reasons to enjoy it, which is wh
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Absolutely agree. That's why I was shocked to see the effect it had on my girlfriend. As you said, I know better than than to build my expectations on social media and "reality" tv.
And the problem wasn't the better picture of the Eiffel Tower. The problem is with continuing that game. If you don't like it - for whatever reason - why no say so?
You mean ‘plagiarising’, not ‘st (Score:2, Informative)
The original twits still aren't deprived of their inane bloody tweets, they've still got them insofar as you can really own anything that's in the sodding cloud. The suspended accounts were plagiarising tweets: copying them without attribution.
Words matter; the headline made it sound like they found some sort of vulnerability in Twitter allowing them to move tweets to different accounts.
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Honestly this is relevant (Score:3)
In todays world, Twitter news like this is actually very relevant to nerds and even stuff that matters...
That's right, Twitter matters, take that as you will but it's true in todays world.
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No fucks given if twitter vanished forever.
NOTHING of this is news! (Score:5, Insightful)
1. BuzzFeed -> need I say more?
2. Twitter -> Seriously, need I say more?
Twitter is, has always been, and will always be, a 100% PR/propaganda site, for those PR and midlife crisis people who believe it's where the "cool" young "hip" people are, but where really them and only them live. Even the young girls there are just such people pretending to be them. And every famous person there is either a "managed account" or somebody who wants to be "cool" and precisely doesn't know what is.
And BuzzFeed is a site that out-HuffPo’d and out-FoxNews’d both Fox News and Huffington Post in their clickbaity bullshittery. They are the epitome of fake news. Their logo is literally what you find in the dictionary when you look up "fake news" or "clickbait".
And since BuzzFeed now has appeared multiple times here, I highly suspect Slashdot is now nothing more than a husk, put on by the likes of BuzzFeed, to disguise themselves, when raping your brain yet another time.
Complete, total, and utter psychopathic insanity.
Everyone involved should be expelled to Siberia or Arizona and shot on the first attempt of re-entering the human world! Including me and you due to having been tainted.
Twiter is useful (Score:4, Insightful)
I agree with you about BuzzFeed but Twitter still has practical use. I still get useful links and other information daily from the various people I follow - all of it technical, as I try not to follow anyone overtly political, and much more concise than Facebook could ever be.
Twitter, like any other tool, is useful if you use it correctly....
weird (Score:1)
Re:weird (Score:5, Informative)
The summary was poorly written, the accounts were banned mostly for copying the content and posting it as their own (think 9GAG).
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noice
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So I just need to post things with a hashtag that is automatically retweeted by many others to become viral? Hooray! #meetoo will be famous!
Then why does the retweet feature exist? (Score:1)
If Twitter realized that retweets are stupid they should just remove the feature instead of penalizing people who use it.
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Or provide automated attribution
Re:Then why does the retweet feature exist? (Score:5, Insightful)
If Twitter realized that retweets are stupid they should just remove the feature instead of penalizing people who use it.
I love the excessively simplistic attitude people take. Retweets are in general fine, that doesn't mean they can't be abused.
Spam is abouse of email, but that doesn't mean email should be banned.
Re:Then why does the retweet feature exist? (Score:4, Informative)
Stealing tweets (Score:4, Informative)
I confess I didn't even know that "stealing tweets" was a thing. O Brave New World...
Alrighty then, I guess I'll go yell at some kids to get off my lawn after Matlock is over.
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I confess I didn't even know that "stealing tweets" was a thing. O Brave New World...
Alrighty then, I guess I'll go yell at some kids to get off my lawn after Matlock is over.
Matlock?
Is that one of those newfangled theater performances in a box?
So.. (Score:1)