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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTHIS is what Elon Musk's Twitter has show up as a "Top tweet": 4 likes, 19 followers, illiterate
I commented in another thread - https://democraticunderground.com/100217313045 - on how imbalanced the tweets were when I started skimming Twitter after Biden's speech, doiing keyword searches for both Biden and Biden speech.
The idiocy below showed up near the top of the Top tweets. Sorry I can't do a screenshot and post it, can just link to the tweet.
Link to tweet
zipper
@zee_zipper
#bidenspeech
Biden speech tonight
-Your hungry "Fuck you it Jan 6th that's important"
-You can afford anything "Fuck you it Jan 6th that's important"
-You cant afford Gas "Fuck you it Jan 6th that's important""
6:40 PM · Nov 2, 2022
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A tweet with 4 likes, from an account with 19 followers, is now a Top tweet on Twitter if it criticizes Biden enough.
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highplainsdem
(63,335 posts)19 followers, or did earlier.
Musk is having this kind of illierate drivel, from someone of no importance, highlighted.
TigressDem
(5,126 posts)TRUMP - barely knows which end of the Bible is up
Biden - regular at Catholic Mass
It shows.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/09/politics/food-stamps-biden-trump/index.html
Biden nixes Trump proposal that would have kicked 3 million off food stamps
By Tami Luhby, CNN
Updated 5:22 PM EDT, Wed June 9, 2021
In one of its latest steps to erase Trump administration policies, the Biden administration has withdrawn a controversial proposal that could have kicked 3 million Americans off of food stamps and cost nearly 1 million children automatic eligibility for free school meals.
The proposal, issued in 2019, would have tightened the rules governing who qualifies for food stamps. It would have curtailed so-called broad-based categorical eligibility, which makes it easier for Americans with somewhat higher incomes and more savings to participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the formal name for food stamps. Republicans have long argued that this expanded eligibility option is a “loophole” that permits those with higher incomes and assets to get public assistance.
RELATED: Biden administration expands pandemic aid to feed 30 million low-income children this summer
Children would have been particularly at risk from the proposed rule change since their families would have lost benefits, and they might have lost access to meals at school, said Luis Guardia, president of the Food Research & Action Center, a left-leaning group. Childhood hunger can affect academic performance, behavior and mental health.
The move comes a few months after the Biden administration put an end to another Trump-era rule that could have stripped food stamps from nearly 700,000 people. That measure, announced in late 2019, would have required more food stamp recipients to work in order to receive benefits by limiting states’ ability to waive existing work mandates.
A US district court judge blocked it from being implemented in March 2020 before striking it down in October. The Justice Department under the Trump administration initially appealed the decision, but after President Joe Biden took office, the agency asked the appellate court to dismiss the appeal, which it did.
TigressDem
(5,126 posts)$2.56 - $4.96 CURRENT
TRENDING DOWN
Lovie777
(23,954 posts)It's becoming a RW cesspool.
Twitter is just becoming another Reich wing nut job forum. No one, other then Qpublican idiots will be on it within six months.
highplainsdem
(63,335 posts)a Democrat/liberal.
But this piece of illiterate crap really caught my eye. I've never seen anything like this show up as a Top tweet in the past.
TigressDem
(5,126 posts)Hmmmm
Johnny2X2X
(24,469 posts)This Tweet was promoted by Twitter. No way a guy with 19 followers gets a top Tweet. This is messed up.
highplainsdem
(63,335 posts)Sympthsical
(11,176 posts)That's not how the feed works.
But, we're on about Twitter this week, so I guess new conspiracy.
(I'm really waiting for people to start talking about the fact context corrections are appearing on the White House feed. I figured people would go nuclear over that one).
RussBLib
(10,788 posts)That grammar is confusing.
Can someone translate?
highplainsdem
(63,335 posts)is that if you're hungry, can't afford to buy anything (here that illiterate twit typed "can" when he meant "can't" ), and can't afford to buy gas, Biden's only response is "Fuck you. It's January 6th that's important."
Emrys
(9,209 posts)Try Googling any of the phrases you just typed in the next few hours or less.
highplainsdem
(63,335 posts)thing.
And so does every Democratic/liberal tweet doing similar quoting or paraphrasing. And a lot of my favorites on Twitter, like Aaron Rupar, will quote or paraphrase RWNJs even when they're posting video.
That's why I tend not to focus on RW trolls, except on the very rare occasions when they've been unwittingly hilarious.
Think like a troll: "If I wind up some libs enough, maybe they'll reply or re-post my garbage." There's a lot of talk on GD at the moment about lack of positive Democratic messaging this late stage in the elections. I'm not going to join any more dots.
RussBLib
(10,788 posts)...and I don't think you've just "amplified" that message. Trying to understand something is far from agreeing or endorsing it.
Anything can be taken out of context.
Emrys
(9,209 posts)Twitter's algorithms are not clear, but one thing they measure is engagement. A tweet near the top that riles people will get engagement, and we don't have any way to measure that unless we're Twitter or whoever posted it.
The OP linked directly to the tweet. How is giving it another venue not amplifying it?
If someone's worried about the elections, it could be that there are more useful things to do than chase RW trolls around the interwebs. They're out there. I think everyone knows that. I generally make some effort to avoid them.
highplainsdem
(63,335 posts)from someone with so few followers appeared as a Top tweet.
Emrys
(9,209 posts)I probably use Twitter more than most, and I haven't noticed any changes yet. But then I'm not trawling it looking for signs of them, I'm just using it like I normally do - for information and entertainment. When any changes do come, I may not have to look too hard for them.
womanofthehills
(11,040 posts)
Generic Brad
(14,374 posts)I find them increasingly unintelligent.
mzmolly
(52,868 posts)
TigressDem
(5,126 posts)Rich people are supposed to be above it all, never be held accountable for their actions.
That's what lawyers and accountants are for, to hide the bodies.... I mean money so that rich people don't get caught... I mean bothered by the petty details of their destructive path walking over everyone in their path.
Sympthsical
(11,176 posts)I counted the top 20 posts for "Biden speech".
10 for, 10 against.
Wajahat Ali was the second post.
highplainsdem
(63,335 posts)8 for, 12 against.
There was more RW imbalance when I just searched for "Biden" but not quite as bad as earlier.
I've been doing Twitter searches for keywords and names like this for years. I've noticed the shift in recent days, but it was really extreme tonight.
Since I'm seeing a number of RW tweets from people with very few followers, it looks as though Twitter - Musk's Twitter - is promoting them. So far I haven't seen any Democratic, pro-Biden tweets from people with very few followers showing up as "Top tweets."
Emrys
(9,209 posts)@TimHannan
19h
If crime is up under Biden it’s because MAGA Republicans are committing them. They produced 1000 crimes on a single day in January 2021.
Rob Reiner
@robreiner
57m
President Biden couldn’t have been clearer. These midterms will determine whether we want to preserve our 246 year Democratic experiment in self rule or surrender to the Tyranny of Fascism.
Joe Biden
@JoeBiden
1h
United States government official
All of us who reject political violence—and I believe that is the overwhelming majority of Americans—all of us must unite to make it absolutely clear violence and intimidation have no place in America.
Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦
@RonFilipkowski
1h
Wow, I didn’t see Biden’s speech, but MAGA is pretty pissed about it. Must’ve been good then.
Joe Biden
@JoeBiden
1h
United States government official
American democracy is under attack because the defeated former president of the United States refuses to accept the results of the 2020 election.
He refuses to accept the will of the people.
He refuses to accept the fact that he lost.
🇺🇸🤟🏻
@esoryelsnya
12m
Quick summary of Biden’s speech: they’re trying to cheat.
I had to read down 22 tweets before I started to encounter negative ones.
Now, that could be due to a number of factors, including location (I'm not in the US), how I've trained the site and its algorithms though my usage and decisions, and my search history.
I would never be surprised to run a search on any politician's (or celebrity's) name on Twitter and find a whole bunch of ranting rightwing or whatever trolls and trollbots. Try searching for anything to do with Nicola Sturgeon some time, just as an example I know well. There's a whole culture of it out there, some of it paid, I'd say most just sad people with too much time on their hands, an overload of angst and aggression, and a handy device that lets them vent.
The thing is, you can mute or block them. Nowadays, if I click on a Sturgeon tweet or whatever, I see a whole stream of notices telling me that I've muted tweeters' accounts. If I could be bothered blocking them instead, I wouldn't even see that. Most of the time these idiots are just ranting at each other or into the void anyway.
highplainsdem
(63,335 posts)what's being tweeted and what Twitter has appearing as Top tweets.
Emrys
(9,209 posts)hence they'll all be seeing filtered results themselves, so I don't know what you're trying to prove there. You're using/viewing Twitter in a way few people do, especially since they made it more awkward to read it without being logged in.
highplainsdem
(63,335 posts)considered a Top tweet.
Musk himself has suggested that people can just basically create bubbles for themselves on Twitter.
I'm trying to get a more general view of what he's doing.
Emrys
(9,209 posts)One (using "one because I don't want to sound accusatory by using "you" ) can break out of them if and whenever one wants, but presumably one built that bubble for a reason, unless one's just been ambling along and not thinking about the platform one's using and what one's telling it about oneself. I don't think your method will get you to what Musk is doing, but it's your time and effort, not mine.
But I just Googled "Fuck you. It's January 6th that's important" (with quotes).
Only one result so far. Guess what it is:
THIS is what Elon Musk's Twitter has show up as a "Top tweet"
40
21 minutes ago — ... typed "can" when he meant "can't" ), and can't afford to buy gas, Biden's only response is "Fuck you. It's January 6th that's important.
26 posts
· 19 followers, or did earlier. Musk is having this kind of illierate drivel, from someone ...
Oh well, you showed that troll a thing or two. Where's its Google result, huh? It'll be cold gruel in the cybergulag tonight.
womanofthehills
(11,040 posts)Musk is getting a council together. When I go on my suggested tweets- it’s mostly the people I have interacted with or showed interest in.
highplainsdem
(63,335 posts)interfering with moderation. Twitter fact-checked the Biden White House.
Again, I'm doing keyword searches without filters to see what turns up under Top tweets.
And there has definitely been a change.
FelineOverlord
(3,851 posts)He doesn't follow anyone.
Although anyone's tweet can show up for a trending hashtag.
highplainsdem
(63,335 posts)Biden
and
Biden speech
and I'm pretty sure it was the latter search that turned up Zipper's tweet as a Top tweet, just a few minutes after it was tweeted. apparently.
I've done LOTS of searches on Twitter like this over the last few years. Searches for keywords or names, NOT logged in so not filtering that way. NOT using hashtags. Just trying to get a general sense of what's being tweeted. (And often still finding great tweets by my favorites that I'll share here, with some of those reaching the top of the Greatest page. I rarely click on RW tweets since I'm not going to post them here.)
And I've seen a radical shift in how much prominence is being given to RW posts, in just recent days. Especially this evening.
keithbvadu2
(40,915 posts)Capitalism, social media, and growth.
https://i.imgur.com/C2M9Kh1.mp4
Cha
(321,003 posts)highplainsdem
(63,335 posts)the way I usually do after one of his speeches, when you'll often see me posting those positive tweets here. Tweets from my favorite people on Twitter, mentioning what they liked best about the speech, quoting it, or just offering more general praise.
And I was floored to see overwhelmingly RW, negative comments instead. I'd expected to see some. I didn't expect to see so many, let alone illiterate drivel from an account with very few followers treated as a Top tweet.
Cha
(321,003 posts)It's good to know what the enemy is up to.
I just really needed to see some positive feedback, too.
I'm freaking out like everyone who cares about our Democracy and Hoping for the Majority Wins in the House and Senate.
So glad PJB gave this speech.
I saw something where someone was saying on one of the shows that he finally realized it... I think it's the perfect time. Biden has good timing.
Liberal In Texas
(16,468 posts)I hear the ruskies are having a field day posting crap.