Friday, July 23, 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.

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