Monday, July 25, 2011

Villainy at Twitter?

We read:
"As social media sites like Twitter increasingly dominate public discourse, there are occasional reminders that these digital platforms are private companies, not public utilities. Twitter can pick and choose who uses its services, fair or not. “Empower Texas” may be getting a sour taste of this reality.

Redstate.com is reporting that Twitter has booted the influential state level conservative group “Empower Texans” from all of its services. And as the group states on its website here, Twitter did not just suspend the main group feed — it took offline the tweeting capability of every individual member in the group as well.

Empower Texans claims it is unaware of any violation of Twitter’s terms of service, and received no advance warning about the service suspension. The group also raises the possibility that the suspension is the result of some kind of prank — or perhaps a concerted campaign by other users to mark its tweets as “spam.”

So, until Twitter publicly comments on the suspension, or Empower Texans is back online tweeting away, it remains to be seen why a group that is an important conservative voice in Texas has had one of its communication outlets hobbled.

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8 comments:

A. Levy said...

When will people realize how dangerous these so-called "social media sites" really are? Are people so starved for attention that they don't care? I fear that to be true.

Although sites like twitter do allow those of us who are paying attention a glimps into human nature, what we usually see is both sad and frightening.

FuzzyRider said...

The leftists don't even pretend to be 'liberal' any more. Fortunately, competition is (still) allowed...

Anonymous said...

A. Levy, I am appalled that you knock a BUSINESS. What are you, a damned commie? For conservatives, business is vastly more important than people. You should know that.

Anonymous said...

I think a business should be allowed to pick and choose who they want to be of service to. However, the government won't allow that - unless it is conservatives who are getting the boot. If they would have tried that with a gay, black or otherwise non-conservative group, all hell would have broken loose.

Spurwing Plover said...

TWEET,TWEET,TWEET,CHIRP,CHIRP,CHIRP

A. Levy said...

Anon 3:55,... it's not the business that i find fault with, but the weak-minded fools who put their entire lives out into the public, then whine when things go very wrong with their info. Then again, as a leftist, you already know that. You also know that conservatives care far more about people than you leftists do.

Anonymous said...

"You also know that conservatives care far more about people than you leftists do."

Why did you not list all of your exceptions, eh? Ridiculous statement. Pushing the BIG LIE?

Anonymous said...

How original of you, A. Levy.