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Twitter account tracker5/19/2023 In an interview with Fortune, Sweeney explained he was motivated to run the accounts by celebrities’ hypocrisy who emphasize the importance of tackling climate change while also globe-trotting on their gas-guzzling private jets. Sweeney has also set up dozens of other accounts including which sparked international headlines in July when it posted details of a 17-minute flight flown by Kylie Jenner’s plane between two cities in California. Musk then blocked Sweeney some time after Jan. Sweeney-who was 19 years old at the time-said he responded by asking Musk to up his offer to $50,000 before saying he would also consider scrapping the account for an internship. Protocol reported in February that Musk personally contacted Sweeney in November 2021 to offer $5,000 to shut down the jet-tracking account. he’s literally just disabled the account.” “ a town square, there’s, like, police, but you’re allowed to protest,” he said. He added that the ban invalidates Musk’s claim that he wants Twitter to be a “town square” where all types of speech are accepted. “They can bend the rules how they want to bend the rules for certain people.” “If that was true, then it would have been suspended a month ago,” he said. Sweeney is skeptical of Twitter’s claim that the account violated its rules, he told The Daily Beast. Guilty in my book,” Sweeney tweeted on Tuesday.Īs of early Wednesday, the jet account’s tweets were inaccessible with a message simply stating: “Account suspended.” “I think Twitter noticed my tweets and back tracked. On Monday, Sweeney followed up on his own thread to say that it appeared the shadow ban had ended. The former New York Times columnist said an unnamed employee at the company told her it was used as a tool “to suppress what people see to different levels.” Weiss added that visibility filtering was used to “block searches of individual users to limit the scope of a particular tweet’s discoverability to block select users’ posts from ever appearing on the ‘trending’ page and from inclusion in hashtag searches,” without users’ knowledge. “Visibility filtering” is the term used by Twitter staff to refer to shadow banning, Bari Weiss reported in a Twitter thread last week. This is what a Point (Precise Location) looks like in a Tweet.The thread also included a screenshot purporting to show Ella Irwin-the person who replaced Yoel Roth as Twitter’s head of trust and safety-sending a Slack message to an unspecified “team” asking them to “apply heavy VF to immediately.” It’s not clear when the message was sent. ![]() In the Twitter iPhone and Android app you can enable a Precise Location Tracking like this: So that will be a general area, like a city, unless the user has also enable Precise Location Tracking. You can click the Add Location button and it will insert what Twitter calls a Place, which in GEOJson is called a Polygon. To get started, here is what a Tweet looks like from a browser. But if you want to pursue this further, you could study this academic paper and write an ML algorithm to improve user tracking accuracy to make your application be better at doing that. ![]() This means it might not be really useful for marketing, customer support, or other kids of research. But there is a limit to that, as Twitter users must opt into location tracking or manually add the location to tweets.īy one purely anecdotal estimate, somewhere between 1% of Twitter users have set up precise location tracking and 10% have set up tracking to a wider area, such as a city. (For more background on GEOJson, i.e., the universal standard to designate geographic location, you can read what we wrote about using locations in MongoDB here.) Twitter Users Must Opt into Location Tracking Here we explain how to track users and tweets by their location. Automated Mainframe Intelligence (BMC AMI).Control-M Application Workflow Orchestration. ![]()
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