.@Jack, from the bottom of my heart: thank you. This will make the lives of a lot of people tangibly better. I will now unblock every company on the #BlockParty500 list. All: if you've been manually blocking as a part of this effort, pls. manually unblock. buzzfeednews.com/article/charli…
Some are saying @Jack only made this move b/c #BlockParty500 affected Twitter's ad revenues. That may or may not be true, but I think it's important to acknowledge it when companies do the right thing for any reason b/c it's not inevitable they will, even w/ coordinated pressure.
By the way, I hope that Twitter banning Alex Jones means that Wil Wheaton will come back to Twitter. I get that he's having a better life now and all but he needs to understand that this is about MY needs. 😉 Shout out to all #DeactiDay participants! You guys are hardcore. 💪
Thank you @lenpoz & @Nelba_MG for insights along the way. Thank you @slpng_giants for being relentless & brilliant & never faltering in your quest to help companies be better. Thank you @shannonrwatts for showing the way, as usual, and being the absolute north star that you are.
The @Adweek piece by @kelseymsutton on Twitter's decision to ban Alex Jones includes a nice mention of #BlockParty500 as well as my official statement about it: adweek.com/digital/twitte… (Apologies to anyone seeing this piece in my feed twice. Added it to the wrong thread earlier.)
PSA: it looks like @blocktogether is having some technical difficulties this morning, which means that the unblocks have not propagated out to everyone yet. I've notified the app creator and hopefully it will be back up and running soon.
Good news: Block Together is back up! Sounds like the system got a bit overwhelmed, which I guess will happen when 80k people do anything! You have 2 options: sit back, relax & let the unblocks propagate or log into @BlockTogether, go to "Subscriptions" & uncheck "shannoncoulter"
It's apparently going to take about ten days for all the unblocks to roll out. The recommendation from Block Together's creator is to just let that happen vs other ways. Looks like some subscriptions came in at the last minute yesterday, so final tally was 80,302!
Just want to say thank you SO much for all the well wishes these last 24 hours! Having a hard time keeping up, but please know it means the world to me. We did this together & in so doing, were a part of a years-long effort by others. Honored to stand shoulder to shoulder w/ all.
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"The United States is respected again," says the man who forcibly separated thousands of children from their parents and caused an international human rights crisis in the process.
"The United States is respected again," says the man who made fun of a disabled reporter at one of his campaign rallies.
"The United States is respected again," says the man who questioned the nationality of our country's first black president for five years.
Longtime #GrabYourWallet supporter and Georgetown law professor Dr. Heidi Li Feldman 👇 has started a GoFundMe to help cover Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's security costs! She's already raised $1k in 1 hour. I just donated. You should too!
Wow. @HeidiLiFeldman has raised over $16k for Dr. Blasey's security in just two hours. I am dazzled. What better way to show her that we truly have her back? Thank you Heidi and also @warrenleightTV for adding early fuel to the fire! gofundme.com/to-cover-dr-fo…
Just in case anyone is wondering if we mean it when we say we have Dr. Blasey's back. Thank you @HeidiLiFeldman for organizing this!
"We don't believe we should put the burden of abuse and harassment on the victim of it." That's great @Jack, but stop talking about algorithms. An algorithm shouldn't be the line between us a guy like Alex Jones. A grown up human being with human judgement should be.
The DMV doesn't have the same set of requirements for a Toyota Camry driver as it does a Freightliner semi-truck. When a guy with an audience of almost a million people is being abusive and defamatory, it CANNOT be down to an algorithm.
Content creators at Alex Jones' level are more sophisticated than they seem. They know how to skirt the line while still feeding red meat to people who harass and threaten the subject of the coverage. No algorithm can deal w/ that.
Good morning! To encourage Twitter to drop Alex Jones, I just blocked the Twitter accounts of every Fortune 500 company w/ a Twitter presence. Ready to mass block Twitter's most lucrative advertisers with me? There are three quick & easy ways. Instructions are in this thread.
Option One: The quickest, easiest way is to use a free tool called Block Together. Using it, I created a custom block list to which you can subscribe w/ a few clicks. This doesn't negate/overrule your own block list. You’ll just be blocking my own list in addition to your own...
To subscribe to my block list, just click this custom link: bit.ly/2MAd0tg. Then click the button that says “Block All and Subscribe.” Then click the blue “Authorize App” button. Voila! You’re now blocking all the companies on my list!
Are you bothered by the hypocrisy of Ivanka Trump putting motherhood at the center of a brand while serving as a prominent part of an administration that's forcibly separating kids from their parents? Want to call that out in a powerful way? Here's how.... +
Step One: choose any well known children's clothing brand carried by Macy's, Bloomingdales, Lord & Taylor, Amazon, and/or Dillard's.... (these are the major retailers that still carry the Ivanka Trump brand...) +
Step Two: take a screenshot of that brand's kids' clothing on the retailer's site then locate the brand's Twitter handle in order to send them a message...+