TWITTER Surviving Change: Rules, Retweets, Responsibilities

By Kurt Seapoint

This is the handbook you need now to survive on Twitter...

Twitter: Surviving Change includes the latest on the “auto-suggest” issue that led many users to believe they were shadow-banned during the past two years.

If you have experienced a decrease in Interactions, a declining number of Impr

• Language: English
• Publisher: Skorias
• Release date: Aug 11, 2018
• ISBN: 9781732358270

Kurt Seapoint

Kurt Seapoint is the pen name for an independent publisher with more than a decade on Twitter. Twitter Surviving Change and the latest, What Is Wrong With Twitter, were written to help you identify issues with your Twitter stream and get back on track as soon as possible. Many of the examples mentioned occurred with our own accounts and with people we are acquainted with on the platform. In these books, we strive to provide accurate and practical information in layman's terms to the best of our understanding, to help you successfully navigate our favorite platform.

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INCLUDES THE VERY LATEST ON THE AUTO-SUGGEST ISSUE AND THE SHADOW-BAN CONTROVERSY

If you have experienced any of these on your Twitter account...

a decrease in Interactions

declining number of Impressions

difficulty posting/replying

a temporary lockout

less sales and web traffic from Twitter referrals

a feeling that something isn’t quite right...

read this book now!

© 2018 Kurt Seapoint

All rights reserved worldwide.

ISBN 978-1-7323582-7-0

Credits

Cover and Title Page Images Public Domain courtesy of Pixabay

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER ONE

Twitter and the Recent Past

TIMELINE

Shadow-banning

Porn Shift

Tweet Count Hike

Bot Purge Plus

Section 230

CHAPTER TWO

2018...

CHAPTER THREE

Your Twitter Account

CHECKLIST

CHAPTER FOUR

Surviving

For Writers on Twitter

Twitter As A Writer’s Resource

CHAPTER FIVE

Back to the Present

Final word...

RESOURCES

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

"Freedom is what you do with

what’s been done to you."

Jean-Paul Sartre

CHAPTER ONE

Twitter and the Recent Past

1

We’ve had a love-hate relationship with Twitter for several years, but it is an entity integral to our success. We always try to adapt to whatever appears to be allowed, and have managed to co-exist, somewhat prosperously, on the platform. And then, we were caught in the perfect storm of 2017 when politics, Russians, bots, and hate flooded Twitter’s streams and changed the course of our digital lives.

The earlier part of that year we could spend an hour on Twitter and it was essentially a virtual drive through a big city from its seedy side (with no detour from gore, porn, or sheer vulgarity) all the way across town to the Mall (with its chat, billboards, bookshops, films, music, fashion, foods, and friends) or a football game or a Lana del Rey concert. Along the way Twitter users could speculate on Bitcoin or Facebook stock or watch a Tesla as it cruised towards Mars...but it was a trip increasingly encumbered by posts on the American election.

Apparently, there are few of us who realize that the USA Electoral College actually elects the President, that the popular vote is just that: votes by the populace at large. It’s a popularity contest: the losing candidate won by 2.9 million votes.

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The United States Electoral College is the mechanism established by the United States Constitution for the election of the President and Vice President of the United States by small groups of appointed representatives, electors, from each state and the District of Columbia. (Source: Wikipedia)

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We weren’t on Twitter for the politics. We were there to promote our business, meet people, find potential clients, read film reviews and great quotes, check breaking news, and of course, see the best daily cat and dog GIFs and videos...

So we blocked and muted and unfollowed or otherwise ignored the politickers (our term for those espousing opinions as indisputable facts, for whom agenda matters more than truth). However, we failed to realize these politickers and Management’s response to them, would forever alter not only the face of