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Twitter is Just Randomly Deleting People's Lists -- and No One Knows Why (theregister.co.uk)

Posted by msmash on from the unexplained-changes dept.

Twitter has silently, and without warning, deleted reams of lists users have spent months curating. These lists are used by journalists, activists, and loads of other people, to organize and manage twits they follow and aggregate their tweets, links, photos, and videos, reports The Register. From the article: They are, in a way, personalized RSS feeds of information from the Twitter firehose. For the past several days, though, lists have been disappearing from folks' profiles with no notification, and no explanation from Twitter thus far. Some private, or locked, lists have been made public. Among those impacted by the cockup is Australian freelance journalist and Cryptoparty founder Asher Wolf, who said the issue appears to be tied those who use the mobile Twitter App. Switching to different platforms doesn't help, however.

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  1. They're just giving people a helping hand... by jez9999 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... to move over to Gab. They've seen the writing on the wall.

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    1. Re:They're just giving people a helping hand... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Say what you want, but the so-called "conservative" or "right wing" discussion forums tend to be the most open places where real, unfettered discussion can be held.

      It's the left-leaning discussion forums, like Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Hacker News and Stack Overflow that, in my opinion, are the least open and least conductive to anything resembling real discussion.

      Despite being called "conservative", people on the right tend to value free expression for all, even when it involves ideas that they don't agree with. They find the concepts of censorship, content moderation and banning people to be abhorrent concepts, and won't even subject their opponents to such things.

      Meanwhile, it's the so-called "tolerant" leftists that engage in censorship, whether it's overt censorship through the deletion of content and banning of users/customers, or whether it's causing indirect self-censorship through threats of harm to the reputations or bodies of anyone they disagree with.

      It isn't right wingers who want to limit what people can express thanks to "political correctness". It isn't right wingers who want to block content they dislike. It isn't right wingers who want to ban users who they disagree with. It's leftists who engage in such behavior.

      The political right promotes free and open discussion of all ideas. The political left tries to shut down all expression that doesn't conform to their very narrow world view and narrative.

    2. Re:They're just giving people a helping hand... by spun · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I don't believe anything like that is happening. That's some seriously paranoid conspiracy theory crap.

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  2. Re:And nothing of value was lost. by Richard_at_work · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Where were their backups? They *did* keep backups, right? Or did they just trust a third party to not have an incident such as this?