The Alternative After Being in Twitter Jail

Twitter is an amazing social media platform, but there are a few rigidly enforced rules that their algorithms can use to threaten your existence on their service. The most distressing is breaking one of their rules of behavior (and they have a number of them) that limit, IMHO, free speech.

I’m not a hate monger or a bigot but use one wrong word or expression and you are placed in Twitter jail for 12 hours. Break it again, and you are expelled permanently from Twitter. But any company, and Twitter is one company setting its own rules, can decide, via their AI, how you will be treated. I have my doubts if these rules are equally imposed on all posts or posters.

Yes, I unwittingly broke one of those rules and they determined I used bigoted language, to which I do not agree, but they nevertheless placed me in a 12-hour hold. During that time, I could send and receive DMs (Direct Messages) but I could not post. This denied me access to my 10K+ followers. And I waited.

Good-from-bad is my mantra and here, too, I found that Twitter isn’t the only game in town, albeit it is the biggest one to date. Where opportunity appears, competition is sure to follow and, in the case of Twitter, there surely is growing competition.

What might these competitors give you? How about not selling your interest to those who want to buy adds with it? Then there’s that “one company restriction” where they decide how the game will be played and can strike with formidable force once you…