“This Tweet Is Unavailable” – Musk Escalates Shadowbanning

It&#x27;s also likely Twitter is just broken. They did fire <i>a lot</i> of staff. Also, in any broad move you are going to keep people you should have fired and fired people you should have kept (even if the overall numbers are justified)

I don&#x27;t think this is shadowbanning. It&#x27;s just that the feature of viewing individual tweets via a direct link has been very flaky for a month, and getting worse over time. Tweets will just randomly show up as &quot;unavailable&quot;. (And I think it&#x27;s unreliability in their systems rather than a policy, since I have also seen it happen e.g. for tweets by Musk.)

I’ve actually seen the same thing “This tweet is unavailable” when attempting to view musk’s tweets in general (admittedly I do not have a Twitter account and don’t know how the guest view may differ from an active login). Refreshing many times usually resolves it.<p>Based on that I wonder if what you’re seeing is intermittent infrastructure failure and not shadowbanning, or maybe even both at different times.

This shadowbanning must be targeted—I am able to see all of the tweets listed by the author.

The emperor has no clothes.

Musk made clear they would still shadowban, but the difference is that people would be able to contact Twitter, they would know why, the views to the tweets may simply be limited, etc.<p>The ongoing campaign in the far leftists media lately against the new, more neutral twitter is quite obvious.

When I search for his &quot;@...&quot; nothing comes up; however, I can just use manually typed in URI to get to his account. I guess that&#x27;s the very definition of shadow banning.

As far as I&#x27;m concerned twitter has always been unusable, but honestly, I&#x27;m not sure I&#x27;d want to use it anyway when it&#x27;s this tense.

I have noticed that those who lean extremely right respond feverishly to personalities like Trump and Elon. Does anyone have a theory as why this is the case?

Excuse me! I think you mean &quot;visibility filtering&quot;.