Scott Bell Needs Your Help
https://twitter.com/ScottBellDMN/status/1103330079264919552
Scott Bell finally got a response to his Twitter suspension. See attached. Follow the link and give him a retweet. Enough momentum can hopefully get his account reinstated. 457 RT at the time of this post.
TLDR: He is suspended from impersonating himself since he has two accounts.
Twitter is so stupid, if I weren't so addicted to it I'd quit it right now.
I quit Twitter during the '16 election cycle. Never looked back.
Do it, quit cold turkey, it's liberating!
I just got Twitter. I mostly only follow Michigan sports related things. I don’t follow any friends or family. Mostly because I don’t care about your kid or if you went to Traverse City this weekend. I can see where during an election year it would suck to be on Twitter. Everyone just voicing their shitty opinions on things.
Anyway, the way I have been using Twitter I really enjoy it.
I've used twitter since way back and I've never had a single issue with it. I use it similar to you, sports mostly with some actors and authors.
You literally get to pick and choose who you follow and what you read. If you hate twitter it's probably due to operator error.
https://twitter.com/miel/status/1102688419556159489
This thread should show you how dumb Twitter can be. Also, fuck Barstool
It is truly mind blowing how this is a thing that actually happened while Twitter ignores threats and all the "isms" you can think of.
Twitter logic:
Literal Nazis? They can stay!
Sports tweeter guy has two accounts?!? BAN!!
Vladimir Putin has a thousand guys in a backroom in Irkutsk cranking Twitter content from fake accounts. Twitters response? Suspend Scott Bell.
So Twitter is like the NCAA?
Twitter IS the NCAA!!!
More or less. You could show them the bagmen, the money, the escorts and all the hard evidence from the case and they would still tell the Wake Forests and the Tulanes of the world that if they ever open up Twitter again, they will have to put the school into receivership and forget having varsity sports altogether.
Goddamn Irkutsk, this is why I always hit that place hard in Risk back in the day.
You're not off the hook either, Alberta.
Kamchatka is the key
OK, but UKRAINE IS WEAK!!!
Australia is the key to the whole game.
Are you sure it's only a thousand?
I err on the low side.
He is too busy on our Blog man. Huge Michigan fan don’t you know?
Twitter doing everything they can to ruin their business. They've crossed into the water of having a small amount of people control the speech of a large amount of people, which is just crazy. If it's a national security threat then fine, suspend people. If people are breaking the law there are other avenues to enforce punishment. Otherwise, hands off and don't ruin what you have going for you.
delete twitter from your phones. that ecosystem is toxic.
you can see all the twitter bs by going directly to interesting tweets linked on various websites but don't have to get sucked into the sludge.
Jack and the woman who leads the team that makes the rules on Twitter, can’t remeber her name, were just on Rogan’s podcast. After listening I can confidently say that I would hate her job. Also, I can say that it’s just a group of people that have developed terrible algorithms to police this stuff and if it makes it way to human eyeballs they essentially just make it up as they go.
watched that yesterday. they seem like very smart people in regard to technology and coding but who are completely out of their depth when it comes to social issues and politics which allows savvy people to push them in specific directions which then gets twitter into trouble.
Yea. I watched that Rogan podcast yesterday. Her name is Vijaya Gadde. Certainly an interesting podcast where I thought the Rogan/Poole team was more prepared that the Dorsey/Gadde team. Although I would say that the interaction was not at all adversarial. Even though the questions were tough and pointed, the interaction was rather cordial.
What I thought was interesting is that the conduct policy that dictates the banning/suspensions of Twitter accounts is only a few years old.
definitely a tough problem to tackle and a balancing act between all the different interests pulling in their own directions.
get off twitter, the invasion of your privacy for profit is horrible.
Get on Minds or some other open source platform that respects human beings.
If it were Stringer Bell, I'd help
I’m cool with this as long as it’s applied to all, which would probably cut the number of twitter users by 30%.
Also, I can’t wait for the Pillsbury Doughboy to be suspended. That dude doesn’t even have fingers... there’s no way it’s him actually sending Tweets.
He uses his toes.
Isn't Twitter owned/run by a Michigan grad...who probably follows Scott Bell? This seems like an easy fix by those who can actually fix it.
Who is that? I couldn't find any Michigan ties to Twitter.
Former CEO Dick Costolo went to Michigan.
Jack Dorsey did not.
No.
and why would a CEO of a multibillion dollar company follow scott bell.
UPDATE: FREE AT LAST!
#blessed pic.twitter.com/kjW69BVRiK
— Scott Bell (@ScottBellDMN) March 6, 2019
I think we can all sigh a deep breath of who gives a shit!!!
Then.... why are you here?
Thankfully someone at twitter fixed the issue. If you have twitter and you're not following him you should do so. If you refuse you should be ashamed of yourself.
Twitter is a joke.
Not participating in social media was the best decision of my life.
Just to illustrate the insanity of twitter's "algorithms":
A couple of weeks ago I created a new twitter account for my business. I created it around 3 in the afternoon, but since I was busy with ongoing projects I didn't have time to post any content right away. Literally, I had zero posts. No actual content.
By the next morning I was ready to post, and that's when I saw that twitter had blocked me. I contacted twitter support with a message essentially saying "WTF are you blocking me for?" I got a response pointing me to a long list of transgressions that get accounts blocked, not a single one of which applied to me. I responded with another "WTF, none of these apply to me" and the next response was that my new account displayed suspicious automatic behavior consistent with bots and spam.
I contacted my much more twitter-knowledgeable daughter to see if she had any ideas why I got blocked, and her only thought was that since I hadn't posted anything right away, twitter automatically assumed that my new account was a bot.
After going through a variety of hoop-jumping and tests to prove I wasn't a bot, I was able to re-access my account.
Needless to say, the fact that twitter blocked me in spite of the fact I hadn't posted a single comment or image while ridiculously inflammatory stuff gets the thumbs-up from twitter moderators is a sign of how screwed up things are.
Social media was the death of the human race
eh? They said that about the Bubonic plague.
I like Twitter
The people have spoken and Bell has returned from the grave.