Post: #1

Look who got a blue check mark.



Roosh tells me he requested verification and Twitter complied. He joins Mike Cernovich as another recent surprise verification on the platform.

Maybe Twitter is finally realizing that their hereto before 'business' model of promoting a SJW echo-chamber on what is supposed to be a free-speech application does not make financial sense?

Congrats to Roosh.

Post: #2

Someone's coming up in the world....

Post: #3

About damned time, I'm actually shocked that Twitter gave him that since they're so "progressive" and all.

Post: #4

Mike Cernovich weighed in on this thinks that the backlash caused by the Yiannopolous ban cost Twitter a lot of business and while they won't reverse that, they are now more open to verifying anti-SJW users like himself and Roosh.

https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/769236168663674880

Could be.

Post: #5

Post: #6

Eh, this sort of thing is just a sop. It's a good thing, but not indicative of Twitter changing course in my opinion. They're just signaling "look how fair we are!" for business purposes.

They still play games to control what's trending and where hashtags point and thus shape the narrative. That level of manipulation is just buried a lot deeper than obviously trying to no-platform people they don't like.

Post: #7

I deleted my Twitter account a while back and I'm not going to go back.

Post: #8

(08-26-2016 01:22 PM)weambulance Wrote:  Eh, this sort of thing is just a sop. It's a good thing, but not indicative of Twitter changing course in my opinion. They're just signaling "look how fair we are!" for business purposes.

They still play games to control what's trending and where hashtags point and thus shape the narrative. That level of manipulation is just buried a lot deeper than obviously trying to no-platform people they don't like.

Speaking of that, everyone one the forum who also has a Twitter account should be turning off the "quality filter". It's one of the subtler methods Twitter has at its disposal for soft censorship of views they don't like.

It's under the "settings" tab in your Notifications.

Post: #9

Lauren Southern, Stefan Molyneux, and even lower-level conservatives who came onto the scene via Milo and pro-Trump support, @IamQueenAri and @KasseyDillon, are all recently verified too.

Still not right that Milo's not there, especially with the past few days, it would've been incredible.

Post: #10

So is the consensus here that giving recognition and respect to conservative figures is the new "progressive"?

Post: #11

^ Nah, it's just business.

Post: #12

Hmmm. It could be a trap.

Post: #13

His fake beard is funny.

Post: #14

Think about it: Twitter's a business. We are the bad guys? Doesn't matter. A real businessman will rather have ten bad guys as customers than two good guys. Or one bad guy who has more money to spend than ten good guys.

Times are changing, people are fed up with the leftards, and the smart businessmen are adapting. They still may talk about how feminist they are, but hey, talk is cheap.

Post: #15

Doesn't mean shit... If anyone makes it to the level of outrage and infamy that Milo did they will be banned just the same for threatening the narrative.

The recent alt-right verifications are being done as a measure to put the Milo fire out. Don't fall for it.

Post: #16

(08-26-2016 04:13 PM)NomadofEU Wrote:  Doesn't mean shit... If anyone makes it to the level of outrage and infamy that Milo did they will be banned just the same for threatening the narrative.

The recent alt-right verifications are being done as a measure to put the Milo fire out. Don't fall for it.

Might as well initiate a #BringBackMilo hashtag and say, "he has spine", for starters.

Post: #17

(08-26-2016 03:07 PM)RexImperator Wrote:  Hmmm. It could be a trap.

   

Post: #18

(08-26-2016 04:05 PM)joost Wrote:  His fake beard is funny.

It's real.

Post: #19

It is a trap to prevent a Twitter competitor from rising up.

If 50 big name alt-right/conservatives/right abandoned Twitter together and established a new site then hundreds of thousands (or even millions) of their followers would leave Twitter and move to the new site as well. The last thing Twitter wants is a realistic challenger even if it means giving badges to "evil" and "bad" people.

Post: #20

(08-26-2016 01:24 PM)chicane Wrote:  I deleted my Twitter account a while back and I'm not going to go back.

I never had an account in the first place. I don't understand the point of regular "updates."