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Their arrogance and high-handed treatment of people is out of control, in my opinion. There was no excuse for treating anyone that way. Just wrote a blog post about what an abuse of power I think it was. - Karoli

It was surprisingly humiliating, to say the least. I had been trying very hard to build a reputation and I felt like they were going to ruin it in one fell swoop. I just don't trust them like I used to. - Kimber Scott from email

that's the deeper issue here -- the entire link 'economy' on twitter is built around trust. You follow folks you trust; folks who trust you follow you. The viral nature of sharing on Twitter rests on a foundation of trust. What Twitter did to you was strip you of your trust value. Hmmmm. I think I need to write another blog post tomorrow around that. - Karoli

I never thought about a trust value, but that's exactly what they did take from me. - Kimber Scott from email

I just read your blog post. I got filtered, too. I'm finally out of filter jail. I didn't look to see if all my post have been restored. I post about art, artists, art news and I got filtered out, like I was some kind of "Let me teach you how to make money on the Internet person." That ticked me off, too. I wrote them a letter - after spending forever trying to find just where to send... more... - Kimber Scott

smart to use Friendfeed. I've been thinking about this, and getting hotter about it by the second. The common thread to the 'filters' among my friends is the #iranelection tag. We all know Iran was trying very hard to discredit legit sites passing info. What if Google blocked those sites for political, not malware reasons? Twitter is using the Google malware flag as reason to 'filter' accounts. - Karoli

Yes, you just never know. I guess the old adage about not putting all your eggs in one basket applies in this case, as well. - Kimber Scott from email

I didn't know I was filtered until yesterday afternoon because I didn't know to search for from:name. I really don't know what I did to get filtered, either. While I do post a lot on autism issues, I also post on vaccine issues (high vaccine uptake = social justice issue) education, special education, dyslexia, ADHD, and just general stuff. It's all gone. - Liz

Just looked at from:lizditz -- 41 tweets missing, nothing after 16 hrs ago - Liz

No, it is serious, that is a barley crop and they make beer from barley. The circles appear overnight - quite regularly. If it is some people doing it at night, they have made hundreds, even thousands without claiming credit (of course there are some copycats who have done some). Anyway, I like the patterns and as an architect know how difficult it is to accurately set out even a... more... - southerner

Incidentally, I am also a fan of pyramids, especially the amazing geometry of the Giza complex. I recently found out there are thousands around the planet, including up to 400 in China. How many people know that? - southerner

Thanks for sharing this great info Paul. I am amazed by my own ignorance sometimes. It's great to know that there is more to this illusion we call life. - Johan Horak

Jerome, I think I am going to remove the Backtype entries. I concur. - Steve Rubel from email

Much cleaner, thanks! - Jérôme

Kurt, you have come to the right place. - Louis Gray

Sure, it's stupid, but it's not "Big Brother." Sheesh! - Anthony Citrano from BuddyFeed

the people will vote with their feet. In the meantime we can duplicate our twitter feeds on friendfeed until all our friends are on friendfeed. - Johan Horak

The two examples given in the article were people who were attempting to spread political information, rather than personal? - Marg Uerite

Marg, what difference does that make? If political information is tabu on Twitter, then Barack Obama and the official White House feed, along with all the networks and everyone else should be banned, too. - Karoli

Anthony: It absolutely is Big Brother. They have access to everything posted, then make judgements about what others should see or not see based on what search 'filters' they impose. All of this without disclosure and without recourse. Posts are gone from search forever. GONE. Yes, that's Big Brother at his very finest. - Karoli

Twitter should be opensource - Genaro Bardy

Aren't we being too quick to jump into conclusions here..? I mean think about it, based on Twitter's track record, this is more likely a bug or some other technical glitch. j/k, totally big brother. - Aviv

Aviv, did you look at Delbius' timeline? Clearly states over and over again that it is NOT a glitch. It is intentional. - Karoli

@Karoli: if you define this as "absolutely Big Brother", I would encourage you to read 1984 again. It's more like Little Brother (*very* little.) Sorry, but the metaphor is hyperbolic and silly in my eyes. - Anthony Citrano

And their favorite sports team. - Louis Gray

Shoe size? - Johnny

Zodiac sign. - Louis Gray

A/S/L? - Johnny from IM

Add the average posts per day; I find that very useful - Michael W. May