They did it again.
Twitter started this nonsense last week. I’ve appealed each warnings, and so far, they’ve removed all of them through 23 December. All since Christmas Eve remain. Here’s my comment from today’s appeal—
This tweet links to an astronomy post about the planet Jupiter’s rings. I’ve been tweeting these links in this format for a decade. If Twitter were an honest and reliable business partner, you would explain why you are now tagging these tweets with warnings. I shouldn’t have to guess.
It’s been suggested the problem is caused by the #StarPorn hashtag I began using over a decade ago. If some bit of poorly trained AI is tripping over that hashtag, it shouldn’t be too difficult for a competent programmer to whitelist certain uses of the term. Of course, Twitter may lack the desire or ability to fix their code. If that’s the case, I can find another hashtag, but Twitter has refused to give any explanation.
something … something … something … Rings around Uranus …
If only William Herschel wasn’t classically educated.
My guess is it has something to do with Elon’s commitment to try to fight child porn. They’ve probably tightened up the algorithms recently to the point that anything that could possibly be related to porn is being flagged.
I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for this to be fixed any time soon. My guess is you’ll either have to change your tag, or get used to complaining.
I would suggest tweeting an identical message without the “starporn” tag as a test, but I get the feeling this is a matter of principle. 🙂