I do know for a fact they shadow-banned or throttled Scott Adams, who is far from a conservative but likes to practice free speech and is very open about what he finds problematic on his side of the aisle. Most of his tweets never appear on my timeline.
Twitter shadow banned the following October 3, 2016 Tweets.
When Twitter shadow bans Trump’s tweets, the public can no longer see any of the tweets, and only users who replied or re-tweeted the tweet’s can see said censored tweet — or if one knows the URL/web address of the tweet, one can see said censored tweet.
Here are the URL/web address for each one (take note that hardly anyone has re-tweeted or liked any of them):
Thanks for taking the time to itemize these. I notice they're clustered around a shortish period, and wonder if this is not simply the result of some technical glitch than any organized effort. I don't have any connection with or programming experience of working with twitter's API, but I don't find it so odd that from a high volume of tweets sent from a variety of mobile devices, a few should run into problems. as I mentioned, I hit minor problems 2-3 times a day and I'm a pretty casual Twitter user.
Your source* asserts that these actions were intentional but doesn't actually offer any evidence for this claim. I'm afraid I'm disinclined to believe a site which relies so heavily on handwaving and CAPITAL LETTERS to persuade readers. Searching for other sources only turned up articles from fringe outlets like Breitbart, and absent any sort of rigorous/technical analysis I'm not inclined to take the matter very seriously.
I did find one article+ about the phenomenon of 'deleted tweets' which went into more depth but which was written some time earlier rather than being a comment on this alleged incident. While it was in the Washington Post, a paper you probably love to hate, it wasn't especially focused on election matters and so it might be a good lead for you to perform more rigorous analysis or to contact someone with experience in this area who could substantiate or explain away your claims. I'll certainly be interested to read about it if you uncover more concrete evidence.
It seems to be that the next logical step would be to write a bot which uses the methodology described in the image several layers above to check if POTUS is shadow banned. Thoughts?
Practical and worthwhile, but don't forget your control group so that you have a baseline against which to make meaningful comparisons. I'm not a data scientist though, so you might get better ideas by starting an Ask HN thread focused on the general problem of 'am I shadowbanned on Twitter?'
This has been coming for a while: http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/02/16/exclusive-twitter-s...