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Thank you to everyone sending messages of support.
Twitter suspended my account @steveouttrim out of the blue, citing "spam and platform manipulation" - neither of which is true. It appears I got caught up in the mass purge of Trump-supporting accounts.
I contacted their support team to appeal, but I don't hold out much hope as the true motivation behind this seems political rather than their stated reason.
You can still find me there on the account for this blog, @burnersdotme. At least for now...the de-platformers have had me in their sights for a long time, no doubt they will be trying to take that account out soon also.
Twitter was careful to wait until the stockmarket closed before implementing their sweeping censorship. Even so, with a nearly 4% drop in after hours trading this has cost them about $1.6 billion. It is hard to see future upside in the stock if they are deliberately alienating half their user base.
Other Targets
The biggest target of the purge was obviously Donald Trump (89 million followers), who is still President of the United States. He was simultaneously de-platformed on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitch, TikTok, Discord, Shopify, Pinterest. CampaignMonitor, the mailing list provider for his campaign suspended him. Online stores selling Trump-related merchandise were also taken out. The President's official Twitter account @POTUS is still there but recent messages from Trump were arbitrarily deleted.
Trump's YouTube channel (2.7m) is still there. Steve Bannon's War Room YouTube channel (330k subs) was also removed.
Some of the other accounts taken out were much larger than mine (9200 followers):
General Michael Flynn (1.2m)
Michael Flynn Jr
Sidney Powell (1.2m)
Lin Wood (1.1m)
FightBackLaw
Tracy Beanz (533k)
Major Patriot (311k)
Praying Medic (476k)
Code Monkey
Ben Garrison/Grrrgraphics
Entheos Shines
Miguelifornia (99k)
CJTruth (279k)
Ann Vandersteel
We The Inevitable
Nurse Deplorable
Qtah
X22 Report
Amazing Polly (99freemind)
3 Days 3 Nights
Vincent Kennedy (319k)
Pepe News Now (69k)
Re5igam
Techno Fog
Breaking 911
Doqholliday (102k)
InTheMatrixxx
BrunoBarking
QAnon76
SunQTzu
Zach Haller (Shirtless Pundit)
ANCReport (Ryan Dawson)
Sir William Scot5
Enoch
TruReporting
QtheWakeUp
BenKTallmadge
Sean Cordanon
Anonpatriotq
Mareq16
AOECoin
Many accounts that remained reported losing large numbers of followers.
Suspicious Survivors
Some accounts strangely managed to survive the purge:
[Featured image: the New Yorker, 2014]
Posted from my blog with SteemPress : https://burners.me/2021/01/09/caught-in-the-purge/