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Twitter Allegedly Deleting Negative Tweets About United Airlines' Passenger Abuse (thenextweb.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the ghost-deleting dept.

New submitter dooode writes: As you would have read, United just had another Nazi moment where they had to "re-accommodate" a customer using some (not so gentle) force. The social web seems to have been taken by a storm by this incident. But suddenly people are noticing their tweets are being deleted -- some of them merely status questions. Does twitter make money (read bribes) to delete negative tweets? What do you feel about it? The Next Web adds that "some of the allegedly deleted tweets did not directly mention the incident with the forcibly removed passenger." On the flip side, "some of the initial tweets exposing United Airlines' abusive treatment of passengers are still very much present and actively being reshared on the platform." It's possible that the "allegedly deleted tweets" initially appeared as replies to now-deleted tweets, but TNW says they contacted several users who rejected that premise, "claiming the missing posts were standard tweets."

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  1. Someone needs to sue Twitter by SuperKendall · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Twitter has obviously gotten WAY away from being a Common Carrier in any sense, since they are constantly cherry-picking what is and is not allowed to be seen.

    Someone needs to file a lawsuit over this and soon, so Twitter can go back to being a platform.

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  2. Re:Why are we surprised? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    even reddit mods nixed the original posting of the video (in /r/videos)

    https://www.reddit.com/r/video...

    https://www.reddit.com/r/undel...

    but *supposedly* not because of caving to corporate interests but for showing "police brutality" and "assault and/or battery"

  3. reputation management by eaglesrule · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I would be interested to know if UA uses any of the "reputation management companies" on this list. Do they put in the call to Twitter and other social media platforms, or is it handled directly by corporate?

    Either way, its all hands on deck for the corporate shills. They will censor where they can, and are already using character assassination as a tactic.

  4. One of the left wing rag/mags by rsilvergun · · Score: 2, Interesting

    already pointed this out, but it bears repeating: Nothing will come of this because all the major airlines were allowed to merge into 4 big ones and they tacitly collude to avoid competition. So if you need to fly sooner or later you're going to be a customer of United or you're gonna pay though the nose x10 taking the most round about routes possible (fancy going from LA to Phoenix via Barcelona?).

    This is why we used to regulate public services like transportation. But as the saying goes ain't nobody got time for that...

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    1. Re:One of the left wing rag/mags by Fire_Wraith · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Ironically, it's the backlash in China that may hurt United the most, because unlike domestic customers, international ones have lots of other options, and United has the biggest share of the US-China routes among the US carriers (20 percent, while Delta and American have 8 each). This incident has already gone viral in China, and has people calling for boycotts there too.