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Why can't you have tweets that are much longer - say 2000 words, or a whole magazine article?

You can. It's called posting your article on a pastebin, wiki, blog, or other site, and linking it in a Tweet. TwitLonger is a pastebin specifically for Twitter users. Or if it's your own site, the Twitter Cards feature lets you add <meta> elements to control how the link appears.

Don't post images of text. Use TwitLonger.

Maybe next time spend 10 seconds to Google for the feasibility of what you're proposing?

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#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Internet enabled feudalism is so cool. https://twitter.com/matthewsto...

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

I mean, how can you take any politician seriously when they openly advocate to let their own constituents die to save money?

What, you mean this guy that listens to (supposedly) regular joes? You wouldn't know that watching CNN because they mysteriously lost their connection the moment people started discussing their personal problems that came about because of the ACA.

Soon after Nancy Pelosi tweeted asking for people to share their Obamacare stories and the replies were mostly negative. Just because it improved things for some people doesn't mean it's a good thing if it's at the cost of the majority.

President Trump's claims of the imminent collapse of Obamacare might not be so far fetched when leaked documents claim that the Obama administration seized the profits of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, with the alleged intention of using it to fund Obamacare at the cost of fewer Americans becoming home owners.

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

Look at this #Libtard spreading #FakeNews. He just needs to get over that @realDonaldTrump is #POTUS #45 instead of #Killary and is gonna #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

#MAGA #SuckItLibtards

...sell them to the National Enquirer without fear of legal repercussions.

I assume you mean that the National Enquirer would buy them to simply burn the documents. They are robust Donald Trump supporters and currently feature a story on the front page proclaiming "Trump finally caught the WH leaker!"

The best media outlet to sell them to would be Penthouse or Hustler.

I wouldn't expect any legal repercussions for the packet-sniffer as we just saw Rachel Maddow handling Trump's tax returns from 2005 and she is not in jail.

Everyone say goodbye to dissenting opinions on YouTube.

Disagreement is now harrassment.

Mockery is now hate speech.

Offense is now trauma.

Criticism is now abuse.

Compelling criticism is now violence.

Anyone who talks about subjects the MSM wants to suppress is now a troll.

Anyone at random is a racist/sexist/white supremacist/nazi/etc if they say so.

The use of this alarmist (and usually, simply wrong) language is ubiquitous and deliberate. It's all a pretense to justify a disproportionate censorial "response," especially when they know no response is warranted at all. It's also a brazenly transparent tactic, especially since Twitter/Reddit/etc rarely seem to use it against users that properly align with their politics.

A popular tranny just had two of her YT videos demonitized, one that criticized Islam, and another that criticized feminism:

https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWh...

Is there a fringe group on the left that is guilty of the things you allege? Of course, you can find crazies in any movement.

But it's not the significant problem you suggest, and that's not what we're talking about here.

This story is about really unambiguously racist videos and the companies who don't want their ads appearing in conjunction with those videos, the only surprising thing is that Google made this screw-up in the first place.

A popular tranny just had two of her YT videos demonitized, one that criticized Islam, and another that criticized feminism:
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWh...

What a coincidence that the two major social advocacy projects of the United Nations Broadband Commission are Alliance of Civilizations and UN Women.

Everyone say goodbye to dissenting opinions on YouTube.

Disagreement is now harrassment.
Mockery is now hate speech.
Offense is now trauma.
Criticism is now abuse.
Compelling criticism is now violence.
Anyone who talks about subjects the MSM wants to suppress is now a troll.
Anyone at random is a racist/sexist/white supremacist/nazi/etc if they say so.

The use of this alarmist (and usually, simply wrong) language is ubiquitous and deliberate. It's all a pretense to justify a disproportionate censorial "response," especially when they know no response is warranted at all. It's also a brazenly transparent tactic, especially since Twitter/Reddit/etc rarely seem to use it against users that properly align with their politics.

A popular tranny just had two of her YT videos demonitized, one that criticized Islam, and another that criticized feminism:
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWh...

You need to follow Market Urbanism. They are also "hopeless libertarian nutjobs". Their fondest wish is that anyone would be able to build to whatever height they want in cities like NYC and San Francisco. Then housing costs would drop to near the level of construction costs, which in many areas is several times lower than the current housing cost. Nobody would have to live in cities, but millions of people who want to live in cities and can't afford it would suddenly be able to afford it.

FYI, on Twitter, someone asked Ormandy what was the best password manager. His reply was "KeePass or KeePassX are both perfectly reasonable choices." Source: https://twitter.com/taviso/sta...

Looks like they're trying to head off a negative news cycle from this tweet from the owner of No Starch Press

https://twitter.com/billpolloc...

"Images of counterfeit copies of Python for Kids being sold on Amazon. Legit copies are thicker, color, layflat binding, nicer paper. @amazon"

Also see discussion on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

https://transparency.twitter.com/en/removal-requests.html

It's content from verified journalists' or new organization's tweets that has been removed because Twitter received a legal request usually in the form of a court order.

Data new to this report
Verified journalists and news outlets

Allowing our users to speak truth to power has never been more important as we continue to see an alarming crackdown on free press and freedom of expression across the globe. This backdrop has inspired the creation of this new section. During this reporting period, Twitter received 88 court orders and other legal requests from around the world, 88% of those coming from Turkey, directing us to remove content posted by verified journalists and news outlet accounts. Twitter did not take any action on the great majority of these requests, with limited exceptions in Germany and Turkey.

Specifically, we withheld one Tweet in Germany posted by the verified account of 11freunde.de (a magazine for football culture) for violating an individual's personal rights in response to a court order.

As for Turkey, we withheld 15 Tweets and 14 accounts in response to the 77 requests pertaining to verified journalists and news outlets that we received. For instance, we withheld Tweets sharing gory images following devastating terror attacks as well as content violating a National Security Council decision that was issued after the failed coup attempt in July 2016. All of these withholding actions were taken in response to court orders issued by Turkish courts. In all instances where Twitter withheld content, we have posted copies of the underlying court orders on Lumen. Whenever possible under Turkish Law, Twitter filed legal objections in response to all court orders involving journalists and news outlets, arguing that those decisions may be contrary to protections of freedom of expression. Disappointingly, none of our objections prevailed.

Jon now reporting that Royal Jordainian has deleted its tweet.

Ah, pneumatic tubes. Explains this bizarre label I saw taped to the wall at a Southwest get at LAX: https://twitter.com/isonno/sta...