fuck you. twitter.

ꕤ fuck you. twitter http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/07/twitter-new-quote-tweet-function-tunnels ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT Above are a bunch of insignificant re-tweets that have been censored by the originator of the tweet, presumably on the basis of (a) inane comment chosen or (b) the hashtags selected. I'm going with the 'censored' option, because there is simply no way that this number of blanked out re-tweets is the result of some widespread typo editing compulsion (and I would have noticed typos). Twitter as a messaging platform is rendered senseless if the re-tweets can be censored by deleting the originating post. What kind of lame programming permits this to happen? It is a DISINCENTIVE to push anything along (save for maybe cat photos), as anything you send along, any remark (however innocuous), and any tag keyed in, is SUBJECT to CENSORSHIP on whim from the originator of the message. Once the object is sent/tweeted, that should be the end of it:  it should be a FIXED OBJECT and the only opportunity to delete the object should be BEFORE  anybody else has handled the object. No matter how inane my 'lol' remarks, comments, or hashtags, it pisses me off no end to see dead space where something I had remarked on or tagged belongs. Assh*les deleting their crap because of some innocuous 'lol' or tag they didn't approve of is an infinitely more heinous offence than assh*les deleting their posts because they actually want to censor something of material significance.   With the latter type of censor, you can anticipate it and screen-capture. If there was a torture button on the keyboard to zap the tweet deletion offenders at the other end, I'd be using it joyfully on those that mess with my tweets.   I'm so jacked off, I've blocked the lot of them, save for Radek ... RADEK Permitting censorship renders the platform entirely unworkable, unless the aim is just to tweet out a bunch of solo messages off some list, as if it were some commercial broadcasting task. Twitter's censored my Radek 'bl*wjob' leaked tape (entry from maybe a year ago). F*ck you, again, Twitter. ꕤ