For many months something very odd has been happening to my account, culminating in my being totally rejected for the original creator program after being made to wait for over three weeks. I've long suspected someone at Twitter has their finger on the scale, and now I'm convinced.
A couple of months ago I gained 50k followers overnight, unexpectedly. For the better part of a year, maybe longer, I'd barely gained any followers, even though my analytics told me I was gaining hundreds a day. After this recent explosion, every single day I've lost at least a hundred followers. We all know what effect this has: it tells the algorithm to hide you, and that's exactly what's been happening.
Other accounts I've spoken to tell me they've seen similar things happen: a huge influx of followers, then a gradual falloff that effectively makes them invisible. So why is this happening?
I've spoken to Premium Support and received no help whatsoever. Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter was supposed to guarantee freedom of speech, but in many ways, we've substituted an overt form of censorship that could be understood and accepted--a ban could come at any second--with a much more insidious form that also, in the case of the new rewards program, seems to allow great latitude for individual engineers to really mess with you if they don't like you. Of course we all know what should have been done to prevent the rampant scamming.
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