Goodbye Cruel Twitter

Twitter,

I have not come to this decision lightly, but I have no other choice. Today I would like to say goodbye to my lovely friends and followers, that I have grown so fond of over the last few years, I want to say that this choice, is NOT YOUR FAULT.

Twitter chose to shadowban my account one month ago and no matter what I have done from multiple support messages, groveling and bargaining. Nothing has worked, to have my account returned to normal. I haven’t even had a response back from Twitter support.

TWITTER, IT IS YOUR FAULT!

I realized, from the start, that these strange shadowbans, could very well, have been a cause of a faulty algorithm so had to give Twitter the benefit of the doubt and wrote this article to make people aware: https://www.yours.org/content/the-great-twitter-crypto-shadowban-of-2018-3fad074ccd64

After waiting and contacting Twitter support a few more times more and more evidence came forward to suggest that this may have been targeted and wrote this article: https://www.yours.org/content/is-bitcoin-cash-being-unfairly-censored-on-twitter--e0b744ccf357

Again, I had to give Twitter the benefit of the doubt. I use Twitter a lot(11.1k tweets WOW) and could understand why they may have thought I was a bot. I follow every other person that has ever followed me, as well as everyone who's tweets, put a smile, made me think, supported me, or even disagreed with me but was willing to debate.

Why no response?

However, after more repeated unanswered Twitter support requests, taking time off and not posting, finding others shadowbanned and bring attention to their issues too. I'm still very much shadowbanned and everyday a new list of Shadowbanned Bitcoin Casher’s is created. I watched as others are released from their Twitter Timeouts and their bans lifted and I became very disheartened.

A shadowban only allows my followers to see me, so if they didn’t retweet my tweets nobody outside my BCH bubble(echo chamber) would be able to see my tweets. On top of that, if I tried to engage in a conversation, through responses and replies, on someone else’s Twitter post, and they didn’t follow me it too would be hidden from view. Imagine being a Ghost, you can see everyone around you and even respond to their statements, but they cannot hear you, but there is still just enough hope, I must say having 1400 followers took a lot of work, but that is still 1400 people that can see DEAD PEOPLE. Call them the mediums, the psychics, or Haely Joel Osment from “Sixth Sense”

The Retweets

Even though, I think my posts, are full of fail, and lackluster in comparison to many of the geniuses on Twitter, on occasion a tweet or two would still gain a considerable amount of attention, based on my followers retweeting. This would make me visible outside the norm of the “underworld, in between, another plane, purgatory?” There still seems to be no way to make this permanent. Even begging and pleading has not worked. What do I have to do, Twitter, ask Yahoo for answers? Making others see the Ghost

The Addiction is Real

Whether I like to admit it, or not, I am highly addicted to Twitter. Not posting for 48 Hours in an attempt to prove I wasn’t a bot was torture. You heard of Junkies going through major withdrawal to escape the demon of addiction, this is very real.

I have gone from constant use, to prove I’m not a bot, to just enough of a “taste,” to keep from going completely insane. Cold turkey doesn’t even seem possible, as I’m currently writing about my Twitter addiction in an I’m ending it all blog post.

The Straw that Broke the Proverbial Camels Back

Last night, I noticed something strange when I visited the reply section on @rogerkver's post. Hundreds of replies were just missing. Even now Certain people can not see all the posts attached to the thread.

then this morning I woke up to this Reuters Tweet(shared by @vecchioAsh) and knew it was time to say my goodbyes. This is unacceptable, on any level, to censor cryptocurrency, let alone target specific cryptocurrencies you may or may not like.

But they are private company and can do what they want.

Correct. So I will just share this video from Dave Cullen, a youtube creator, that also frequently are subject to censorship. Dave answers this blanket excuse for private companies banning or censoring way better than I can so take a moment and watch.

Why I HAVE to Leave

I could have just started up my VPN, and created a new account, and who knows, maybe one day, I will? The censorship is real, and it will get worse, if I do NOT support other options and do not Boycott Twitter for their actions, they will continue to do this to others. I'm an activist. I support cryptocurrency, because I am an activist. I can't just be a fair weather protester and do what is convenient for me. I have to make a stand.

Twitter has forced me into an echo chamber where my views, and other people’s views, I disagree with, are separated from each other, and I cannot change Bitcoiner’s minds or have my mind changed if we can not communicate or debate. This is not just about Bitcoin or Bitcoin Cash, but this is about freedom, this is about censorship, this is about joining together as one and making compromises to make this world a little less sh*tty to live in.

For those of you who still have Twitter power

I’m now more dependent than ever before on the thought leaders and Bitcoin Cash community to spread my words to others. I will be doing most of my posts, in long form written format and blog posts, and will share the links on yours.org and r/btc. If you find these posts worthwhile, and you wish to tweet them through Twitter, then maybe @toomuch72 can live vicariously through you?

Thank You

To all those 1400 people who followed me and the thousands of others who have shared, responded to, liked, and even trolled my posts I thank you. This is what makes this so hard.

To Jack Dorsey, Twitter and any other Social Media Platform(or Even subreddit) that Censors people in any way shape or form?

A very pleasant “F*ck you very much.”