The Twitter team continue to find shadowbans buried deep in the Twitter code. Just last week they found a measure that stopped accounts assigned a low 'Reputation score' from trending. This shadowban even applied to Elon's account and prevented his tweets from trending.

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[–]chadwickofwv 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Fucking rewrite the damn thing for fucks sake! Absolutely none of the original code should be left by now.

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That takes a lot longer than you think, and tons of bugs have been worked out in the production code already. It's almost never the right move to do a full rewrite.