Making All Of @ChuckBaggett's Tweets Visible: The Never Ending Story

I got an email from Twitter about my reports of nearly all of my over 300,000 tweets not being visible in search results, by paging backward on my tweets on my profile page, or in a  normal fashion in threads where I'm replying to other people or they are replying to me or linking to my tweets. 

Hello @chuckbaggett, 
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We appreciate you reaching out to us about your account's Search visibility on Twitter. We also understand how important it is to have your Tweets available for everyone on the platform. No worries, we took a look at your account @chuckbaggett, and we were able to find it while searching publicly. We can also see your Tweets.

Would you please send us the Tweet URL address that isn’t showing up so we can troubleshoot?

Please let us know if there's anything else we can help you with. 

Thanks, 

Mara
Twitter Support

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 And this is my reply to that. 

​​You are wrong about my tweets all being visible in search and all being visible using other methods of seeing tweets. 

I joined Twitter in 2008. I have made over 300,000 tweets. That's over three hundred thousand, and they started on the day I started in October 2008 and continued until now.  Up till a few months ago, when your system with decided to punish me by hiding nearly all of my tweets, or had a technical error resulting in hiding nearly all my tweets, every tweet I ever made was visible in search, which is what is normal for normal twitter users. 

Using Twitter's advanced search page, at https://twitter.com/search-advanced ,

and putting my username ChuckBaggett in the from: field and October 1 2008 in the from field and December 31, 2019, in the to: field (aka until field), and doing the search, zero tweets are returned. 

This is how you fill in the fields in Twitter's advanced search page to see my tweets starting from when I joined in October 2008 until the end of 2019 - eleven years during which time I wrote many tweets. 

When you do the advanced search as shown in the picture above, you are doing a search like this:

(from:chuckbaggett) until:2020-12-31 since:2008-10-01 

and that shows in the browser address bar as 

https://twitter.com/search?q=(from%3Achuckbaggett)%20until%3A2020-12-31%20since%3A2008-10-01&src=typed_query&f=top

 

This is what the result of search for my tweets starting 10-1-2008 through 12-31-2019 looks like: 

I'm not saying that my account is not returned by search. 

I'm not saying that absolutely none of my tweets are visible or that absolutely none of my tweets are returned in search results.

I am saying that over a quarter million tweets are not returned in search and can't be accessed by starting at https://twitter.com/ChuckBaggett/with_replies and paging backward. 

This might get resolved faster if we could talk over the phone, possibly doing remote screen sharing, and possibly get someone in Twitter involved who is familiar with how to use Twitter search.

Resolving this will having someone who knows how to use Twitter search and who is able to distinguish between saying "nearly all my tweets do not appear in search results" and "all my tweets do not appear in search results" and "my account does not appear in search results at all". Those are three different things, and I'm only saying the first of those three, that "nearly all my tweets do not appear in search results".

I have recently found out that I have stage 5 prostate cancer, and I don't know how much longer I have to live, and I'd to get all of my tweets restored to appearing in search results, by starting at the most recent and paging backward in time, and where they are linked to in other people's tweets in threads, while I'm still alive. 

Thanks for your help. My phone number is 555-555-5555.

@TwitterRetweets @TwitterSpaces @TwitterCanada @TwitterBlue @TwitterSupport @Twitter

Twitter still has over 250,000 of my tweets hidden from search, and I want them restored.

 It's been over a month since my last post describing my troubles with Twitter hiding my tweets from search results without telling me what I did to deserve such a drastic punishment. There's plenty of users with tweets that violated Twitter rules with all their tweets visible, and plenty with the same or more tweets, and their tweets are all visible to browse through or to search for. . I've asked Twitter repeatedly for an explanation of why they've taken such a drastic stance, and they've not given any explanation. 

Twitter used to have a sort of catch-all form in their antiquated customer service web forms, but so far as I can tell, it's been removed. Their instructions do say to just pick what seems closest and type what you have to say in the text box that appears, so that's what I did, but I expect the reply, if I get one, will say that I used the form wrong and send me back to help.twitter.com. Here's what I said this time:

Nearly all of my tweets have been removed from search results. I think this was an error on Twitter's part. I am not aware of having done anything to merit such drastic punishment. I very strongly want my over 200,000 hidden tweets restored to full visibility.  

Some people call removing a person's writing from search results deindexing.

 If anyone reading this (which I realize is unlikely) has any help or advice to give me, I'm at twitter.com/ChuckBaggett.

@TwitterRetweets @TwitterSpaces @TwitterCanada @TwitterBlue @TwitterSupport @Twitter

Twitter has hidden nearly all of my tweets. I want them all unhidden.

My appeal to the Twitter support system appears below. 

My old tweets are not shown in search results and I can't scroll to see my old tweets and thread. I have read the info at https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/media-policy and I don't think I'm in violation of the rules there or any Twitter rules. I think you've hidden my tweets due to a mistake in an automated system or a misinterpretation of something I wrote or due to a coordinated  attack where lots of accounts target a victim account with bogus abuse reports. 

If your system shows you tweets that if deleted would enable all of tweets to appear in search, or accounts that if unfollowed would let my tweets be returned to full visibility, or anything else I could to be returned to normal full visibility in search results, please let me know. I'm more than willing to do whatever it takes to get my search visibility returned to normal. I appreciate the time and effort you are spending in helping me solve this problem. 

There are many Twitter accounts with the same or great total number of tweets and the same or greater tweets per day.

I don't get into battles with people; if they bother me, I mute and or block them quickly.  I don't use a lot of foul language, or show porn or gore, or bother women with unwanted pictures of body parts. It's possible I am the victim of coordinated abuse report filing; my understanding is that is a fairly common misbehavior.

I support getting covid vaccinations. I wear a mask at stores. I use my Twitter account to promote freedom and peace; to reduce military spending, to stop military fighting, to support freedom of travel for everyone, and to free prisoners and put an end to cruel and barbaric prison systems. I think these are good causes, and it puzzles and hurts me that Twitter punishes people working for noble goals like those. 

I'm hoping the magic of sharing posts online will get my plea to restore my writing to visibility to the right person in Twitter, so please help me out by sharing this post. 

Thanks for reading.

I'm once again appealing to Twitter to make my old @ChuckBaggett tweets appear in search.

 I'm again appealing Twitter's removal of nearly all my tweets from search. Here's my appeal to Twitter support, support@twitter.

My old tweets, well over 200,000 tweets, don't appear in search. It's like having my daily journals and correspondence taken from me. If there are tweets I need to delete in order to get the rest of my tweets put back into search, just let me know which ones and I'll be glad to remove them. Please help me get my old tweets reindexed. Thanks.  

 

I'm again appealing Twitter's removal of nearly all my tweets from search. Please RT.

"My old tweets, well over 200,000 tweets, don't appear in search. It's like having my daily journals and correspondence taken from me. Please help me get my old tweets reindexed. Thanks." 

— Chuck Baggett #Space #Science #Peace (@ChuckBaggett) August 22, 2021

Twitter - Restore @ChuckBaggett's tweet visibility. Stop deindexing Chuck Baggett.

I've used Twitter as @ChuckBaggett since October of 2008. Twitter has been my primary social media site for years. Most days, I tweet a lot. According to Twitter, I have nearly 300,000 tweets. Over 12 years of my tweets were recently deindexed by Twitter, a process known as "deindexing". My tweets no longer appear when users search for keywords I've used a lot, such as  #Antiwar, #ImmigrationRights, or #FreedomOfMovement. This is not due to an error on my part. I know how to use search. I'm using the advanced search page and searching for tweets from my username @ChuckBaggett, and specifying correct beginning and ending dates. Hundreds of thousands of tweets that were returned by search until fairly recently are now missing from search results. All of those tweets should still appear in search results.

I post a lot of tweets to advance social causes like peace, freedom, and space exploration. My enjoyment of Twitter is greatly impaired if people who are searching for keywords and hashtags such as peace, #freedom, or #Space don't see my relevant tweets due to what is probably an error on Twitter's part.

I don't use bots to disrupt other people's Twitter experience. I don't pick fights with people. I don't sell anything on Twitter. I write unique, hand composed tweets. I enter the vast bulk of them using twitter.com, tweetdeck.com, the Android twitter app, or the popular Buffer scheduling app .  

I have no idea why Twitter deindexed my tweets. Twitter has not told me anything I did that broke any rules. The most I've been given is a link to a laundry list of generic rules. If Twitter can't specify anything I did that broke any rule that merits hiding my tweets from search, then Twitter should promptly restore my tweets' visibility in search results. 

There's no good reason I should have to wait months or years to have my account returned to normal status and have all of my tweets returned when they meet user entered search criteria. 

I want people to be able to see all of my tweets that meet search criteria, not just a handful, and if someone looks at my profile, they should be able to repeatedly page down till they get to my first tweet in October of 2008, or their computer runs out of memory, whichever comes first.

WordTune, the AI-powered Writing Companion

I recently found a grammar checker and rewriter extension for chromium based browsers like Vivaldi, Chrome, and Edge, called WordTune, which bills itself as an "AI-powered Writing Companion".

In Twitter, I wrote the following: 

Statism, i.e., organized violence, threats, and deceit, the worship of government, should have lost all support due to its political, economic, historical and moral failings, but unfortunately those are what makes it appeal to its supporters.

WordTune will offer you multiple rewritten versions of your writing, if you want it to, which I did, and the results are as follows: 

In spite of its political, economic, historical and moral failings, government worship, organized violence, threats, and deceit ought to have lost all support. Unfortunately, this is what makes it appealing to its supporters.

Due to its political, economic, historical, and moral failings, democracy, organized violence, threats, and deceit, are the very things that make it appealing to its supporters. Unfortunately, those very things have become its hallmark.

Historically, and ethically, governments based on religious worship, organized violence, threats, and deceit should have lost all support for their political, economic, historical, and moral failings, yet these factors are precisely what make them attractive to their supporters.

The cult of government, including its politics, economics, historical, and moral failings, should have lost all support due to its violence, threats, and deceit, but those very qualities are what make it appealing to its followers.

Politics, organized violence, threats, and deceit, the worship of government, shouldn't have appealed to its supporters because of its political, economic, historical and moral failings, but unfortunately those are the qualities that make it appeal to them. 

Since state power is rooted in violence, threats, and deceit, governments ought to have lost all political, economic, historical, and moral support, but that is what makes them appealing to their supporters.

These seem useful, if not always the same in meaning to wrote, or sensible. I'm quite impressed by how much better today's "AI" is than that of a decade or two ago. There's been several times I liked what WordTune wrote better than what I wrote, in part or in whole. WordTune also does spell checking and grammar checking.

 

Twitter has suspended my @ChuckBaggettJob account. 😖😞☹😟🤯

Twitter has suspended another account of mine. This time it's @ChuckBaggettJob, an account I, perhaps foolishly, made to find work, back when I was still trying to get a normal 9 to 5 job.

Here's the most recent suspension appeal that I filed per the instructions at 
Appeal an account suspension or locked account.

@TwitterSupport said the following previously:

Hello,

Your account has been suspended and will not be restored because it was found to be violating the Twitter Terms of Service, specifically the Twitter Rules against managing multiple Twitter accounts for abusive purposes.

You can learn more about our rules around multiple accounts and against abusive behavior here: https://twitter.com/rules.

Please note that creating new account(s) to evade this suspension is also against the Twitter Rules and will result in additional account suspension(s).

Thanks,

Twitter

Here's my new suspension appeal:

You have suspended my account due to an error of some sort on your part. Possibly it was an error in your automated spam detection system; that is often the cause of inappropriate account suspension. Alternately, it might be that some users dogpiled me by submitting many false abuse reports about me. That happens to many users. I have not done anything meriting permanent account suspension. You should take the just and proper action, which is to restore this account with all its tweets and replies and followers and following.

My next step is to file complaints at the Golden Gate Better Business Bureau.

In the odd chance anyone reading this has any contact with @TwitterSupport or @Delbius, Del Harvey, Twitter VP, Twitter Trust & Safety, please see if they'll take a look at this blog post. Thanks.

 

THE FIRST 10,000 DAYS ON MARS (Timelapse)

I enjoyed this speculative look at SpaceX making a Mars base. 

OpenSim Still Going Strong So Far As Land Area And Active Users Go

 

OpenSim hits record high in land area, active users https://t.co/1YyvyQRwpg pic.twitter.com/S3yBw6S0s6

— Hypergrid Business (@HypergridBiz) February 19, 2021

I haven't been on an OpenSim grid in a long time. I just recently got a good enough computer to make virtual worlds fun to try again and see what they look like with the settings up higher. 

 

Twitter Finally Unsuspended My Twitter.com/ChuckBaggett Acccount After Over 8 Months by ChuckBaggett

 Twitter unsuspended my @ChuckBaggett twitter.com/ChuckBaggett account and, exactly as I predicted, essentially verbatim, they said it was due to a flaw in their spam system, and apologized, in a very automated, canned form letter way. 

I filed dozens of appeals the approved way; I filed appeals from other accounts, and I filed complaints with the Better Business Bureau. I believe the Golden Gate BBB will do. www.bbb.org/local-bbb/golden-gate-better-business-bureau 

It's kind of weird using an alt account for 8 months. It feels like you're leaving your real account and going to an alien one. But the old one has the following and followers and all the tweets, oh so many tweets, and my actual nickname and last name, @ChuckBaggett, so it's the one to proceed with, despite, Google's apparent inability to grasp that I go by Chuck Baggett and have a username ChuckBaggett on Twitter and a Google account of ChuckBaggett, and this Google account of ChuckBaggettWeb. When I search for them, it acts every time like it's never seen them before. It shows me the two Chuck Baggett ministers. 

So if Twitter suspends your account, stay calm and keep filing appeals with Twitter, file complaints to the Better Business Bureau, write blog posts about, tweet about, and maybe they'll give it back to you. 

Or maybe not. 

Twitter Suspended My @ChuckBaggett account on May 29th, 2020, and I want it back

 Twitter suspended my @ChuckBaggett account on May 29th, 2020, over 7 months ago as I write this, and I want my account back. I have appealed the suspension and filed new appeals many times, but they aren't reading them and replying to my new appeals; all  they do is say "This seems to be connected to your initial case so we'll add this to case number blah blah blah" and ask for new details if I know of any. 

It's over 7 months now, and I'm an old man, going to be 70 soon, if I'm lucky enough to live that long, and if I had any details to give them, I'd've forgotten them by now. But I never had any details to give them because I didn't do anything. Twitter's automated spam flagging systems make mistakes, and they suspend people's accounts, and then after months or years, they send an email that says the account was suspended due to an error in their spam flagging system, they apologize, and they hope the user will enjoy using Twitter again. I've read this story from other people, and as part of the Twitter May 29th Suspend ChuckBaggett Fiasco, they suspended other accounts of mine, and on one of those accounts, they have unsuspended the account and sent me that email where they say it was their fault, an error in their spam flagging system, they are sorry, and hope we'll enjoy continuing to use Twitter. 

It's time for them to unsuspend my @ChuckBaggett account. They can keep the automated apology and wishes to enjoy tweeting.

I know this isn't written in a super-diplomatic smooth talking way. Writing that  way would violate the currently popular notion that our posts are supposed to be "authentic".

Here's my appeal filed January 5, 2021. 

Please help me get my @ChuckBaggett account back. Please read this and give me a response from a human being treating me like a person instead of an automated email like the one shown below. I have no idea what went wrong in your system to make it conclude I was trying to evade permanent suspension. It makes no sense. My account was not suspended. I'm a 66 year old man living at 0000 YYY Rd, Apt ZZZ, City, State, ZZZZZ. I have posted over a quarter million tweets in the @ChuckBaggett account and would dearly love to be able to access my account, my followers, and the huge amount of writing I've done. Please, I beg you, reply to me in a human way, with a personal response written by a person, not a computer generated response. Or call me or text me at my 601-000-0000 phone number. I'm not a bad guy doing bad things on Twitter. I have other Twitter accounts that I'm still using every day, and have no trouble with,  but none of them are the one that's under my name, have my over quarter million tweets in them, my followers, and my original account creation date back in 2008. Please don't send me another one of these: "Hello, Thanks for your report. It looks like this is connected with your original case # 000000, so we’ve added it to that first report. We’ll continue our review with this information. If you have more details you think we should know, please respond to this email to send them our way. We appreciate your help!"