I Don't Understand Why Twitter Is Such a Big Deal

If you're able to make things go viral on Twitter, you can meaningfully move the overton window of which public policy is decided. No Twitter, no Trump presidency, period. And they found what we had to say to be such a legitimate threat that they had to say internally without ever telling me privately suppress you. The common denominator as you point out in the early thread is that Twitter employees build these black lifts to prevent the disfavored tweets for trending. Then they actively limit the visibility of the entire count or even trending topics. They do this all in secret without informing users, which is interesting because over time they have said again and again that they do not do this.