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Bitcoiners Posting About Being Shadow Banned For Engagement Stunned To Find Out In Twitter Files They Weren't Targeted
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diff --git a/wiki/news/bitcoiners-posting-about-being-shadowbanned-for-engagement-stunned-to-find-out-in-twitter-files-they-werent-targeted.md b/wiki/news/bitcoiners-posting-about-being-shadowbanned-for-engagement-stunned-to-find-out-in-twitter-files-they-werent-targeted.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e5e93920 @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +title: "Bitcoiners Posting About Being Shadow Banned For Engagement Stunned To Find Out In Twitter Files They Weren't Targeted" +type: news +status: confirmed +date: 2023-01-25 +author: Richard Greaser +image: "https://storage.ghost.io/c/2b/78/2b7819dd-fa09-4afb-83f8-6f9e5bcc69fd/content/images/size/w1200/2023/01/Copy-of-Add-a-little-bit-of-body-text--3-.png" +sourceUrl: "https://www.bugle.news/bitcoiners-posting-about-being-shadowbanned-for-engagement-stunned-to-find-out-in-twitter-files-they-werent-targeted/" +sources: + - raw/news/bitcoiners-posting-about-being-shadowbanned-for-engagement-stunned-to-find-out-in-twitter-.json +--- + +The latest installment of the Twitter Files delivered a devastating blow to one of [[orgs/bitcoin-twitter|Bitcoin Twitter]]'s most cherished grievances: nobody was suppressing them. Journalist [[characters/matt-taibbi|Matt Taibbi]], announcing his findings on a Twitter space, reported that the Feds working inside Twitter had no interest in Bitcoiners whatsoever. "There is a large angry group of Twitter users with #Bitcoin in their bios that post constantly about being shadow banned, which appears to be some sort of engagement farming technique. I have found zero evidence that Twitter employees sought to suppress any accounts associated with Bitcoin," Taibbi stated. + +The finding was doubly inconvenient because [[bits/shadowban-complaints|posts complaining about being shadow banned]] reliably garnered immense engagement — a paradox now impossible to hand-wave away since per-post view counts became public. + +[[characters/richard-greaser|The Bugle]]'s analysis identified two tiers of shadowban complainant: those whose tweets are simply bad, and those who deploy the complaint as an [[memes/engagement-farming|engagement farming]] technique. For the latter group, the article concluded, the Twitter Files were the final nail in the coffin. + +> irl: The Twitter Files were a real series of internal-document releases that began after Elon Musk's 2022 acquisition of Twitter, with Matt Taibbi among the journalists granted access. The real Files covered content-moderation and government-contact controversies; the "Bitcoiners weren't targeted" finding and the Taibbi quote are the Bugle's invention, parodying the genuine Bitcoin Twitter pastime of attributing low engagement to shadowbans.