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 * Test Results
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   Search Suggestion Ban
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   SEARCH SUGGESTION BAN
   
   This type of ban causes an account to not populate search suggestions and
   people search results when it is searched for while being logged out. Twitter
   seems to take tie strength or a similar metric into account. While an account
   may be suggested to users you are strongly tied to, it may not be shown to
   others.

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   Search Ban
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   SEARCH BAN
   
   This type of ban causes your tweets to be hidden from the search results
   entirely, no matter whether the quality filter is turned on or off. This
   behavior includes hashtags as well. This type of ban seems to be temporally
   limited for active accounts.
   
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   Ghost Ban
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   GHOST BAN
   
   This is what is referred to as conventional shadowban or thread banning as
   well. It comprises a search ban while threads are completely ripped apart by
   hiding reply tweets of the affected user to others. Everything will look
   perfectly normal to the affected user but many others will not be able to see
   reply tweets of the affected user at all. Reasons for this ban include
   behavior like excessive tweeting or following. Again, this type of ban seems
   to be temporally limited for active accounts.
   
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   Reply Deboosting
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   REPLY DEBOOSTING
   
   If Twitter's signals determine that an account might engage in harmful
   behavior, Twitter hides their replies behind a barrier and only loads them
   when "Show more replies" is clicked. This behavior is personalized, i.e.
   Twitter does not hide the tweets of accounts you follow. We therefore use an
   unbiased reference account without followings in order to determine whether
   tweets within a thread can be retrieved without clicking "Show more replies"
   from its view. In some cases, Twitter classifies accounts as offensive. In
   this case, replies are hidden behind a second barrier within the "Show more
   replies" section.
   The outcome of this test may depend on the conversation which we found one of
   your tweets in. For testing, we take your latest reply tweet that is not
   within a conversation you started. Note that test results are cached for a
   short period of time.
   A failure to test is neither a positive nor a negative test result. This test
   relies on some conditions that are not fulfilled by all accounts. In some
   cases, we cannot test for purely technical reasons.
   
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 * Twitter reserves the right to limit distribution or visibility of contentBut
   Twitter claims that they do not shadowban
   
   The updated Terms of Service will go into effect on January 1, 2020.
   
   
   
   In a blog post from July 2018, Twitter claims that they do not shadowban by
   defining shadowbanning as deliberately making someone’s content
   undiscoverable to everyone except the person who posted it, unbeknownst to
   the original poster. If you strictly follow Twitter's own definition, this
   may not be false because the key is discoverability. Later, Twitter provides
   a hint why this definition is deceptive by stating that you are always able
   to see the tweets from accounts you follow (although you may have to do more
   work to find them, like go directly to their profile). The problem is
   obvious: Having to do more work to find tweets of accounts is not
   shadowbanning if you let Twitter define it. Although tweets within a thread
   may be completely invisible to others or tweets may not be shown in a user's
   followers' timelines, you will always be able to find those tweets by
   navigating to the user's "Tweets & replies" section on their profile. In
   contrast to Twitter, we find that this is shadowbanning because without
   navigating there, it is not even possible for others to know that the
   corresponding tweets do exist.
   
   
   
   

 * Why is the QFD test gone?
   
   QUALITY FILTER DISCRIMINATION
   
   QFD caused your tweets to be invisible within the latest section of the
   search, including hashtags, when the quality filter on the search page was
   turned on. The filter was turned on by default and would reset for each
   search anew. QFD was introduced on May 15, 2018 as part of Twitter's
   so-called healthy conversation project.
   
   The quality filter was deprecated shortly before Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey
   testified before the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce. In
   his testimony, Dorsey stated the following:
   Twitter recently made a change to how one of our behavior based algorithms
   works in search results. When people used search, our algorithms were
   filtering out those that had a higher likelihood of being abusive from the
   “Lastest" tab by default. Those search results were visible in “Latest” if
   someone turned off the quality filter in search, and they were also in Top
   search and elsewhere throughout the product. Twitter decided that a higher
   level of precision is needed when filtering to ensure these accounts are
   included in “Latest” by default. Twitter therefore turned off the algorithm.
   As always, we will continue to refine our approach and will be transparent
   about why we make the decisions that we do.
   Currently, the quality filter seems to have no effect indeed. But please note
   that this is not a verification that users are not classified anymore by this
   algorithm. We just cannot observe it anymore through the quality filter.
   
   For documentation purposes, you still find the frequently answered questions
   about QFD here:
   
    * Does turning off the quality filter within my notification settings help?
      
      The quality filter within your notification settings only controls the
      notification you receive. Turning it off is recommended and will cause you
      to see more notifications which you would not have received otherwise.
      However, turning it off will not cause your own tweets to be more visible.
   
    * How do I get into the QFD ban?
      
      A lot of interaction with accounts affected by QFD will likely cause your
      account to be affected by QFD soon, too. The absence of personal
      misbehavior does not guarantee an account to be unaffected.
   
    * How do I get out of the QFD ban?
      
      Several German Twitter users that were affected by QFD have been
      experimenting with an Arabic follow-back botnet. The botnet generated a
      lot of followers for those who followed some accounts from this botnet. By
      accumulating many new followers that were not affected by QFD, at least 30
      accounts were able to escape this type of ban. This is a strong hint that
      guilt by association is a major concept of the classifying algorithm.
   
    * Is there a political bias?
      
      The quality filter indeed seems to mainly affect conservative and
      right-wing accounts. Testing over 2,000 contacts of two German left-wing
      extremist accounts did not yield a single account affected by QFD that
      would not be considered politically right. Testing 509 Twitter accounts
      from German members of Parliament yielded 14 affected accounts. All of
      them belong to the AfD, which is a German right-wing party.
   
    * Does it only affect hashtags and the search? Why is it so bad then?
      
      We cannot tell whether the effects of QFD are limited to hashtags and the
      search. These are only the symptoms making the ban visible to us. It shows
      that Twitter is capable and willing to discriminate against accounts with
      certain political opinions. Since shadowbanning is a very unethical way to
      silence people already, it is possible for Twitter to apply methods that
      are harder to detect. Think of more subtle ways of banning by limiting the
      share of followers who a user's tweets are shown to. This would be a
      censorship method that could only be detected collectively by their
      followers.

 * How does this tester work?
   
   SEARCH BAN
   
   The Twitter search features several search modifiers. One of them is the
   prefix from: which allows to search for tweets from a specific user. For
   example, when checking whether @shadowban_eu has a shadowban, we query the
   Twitter search for from:@shadowban_eu . If we do not find any tweets although
   the user has tweeted in the past, the account is subject to a search ban.
   
   THREAD BAN
   
   When the user has a search ban, the tester searches their profile for the
   latest tweet with at least one reply. It then visits the direct URL of the
   tweet and selects some reply tweet. Afterwards, the direct URL of the reply
   tweet is visited. If the tweet that the user replied to is not visible, the
   likelihood that the account is affected by a thread shadowban is very high.
   
   QFD (DEPRECTATED)
   
   When you upload an image, cite a tweet or link to an external page, Twitter
   generates a shortlink for that content.
   
   We first find a reference tweet using a combination of from: and filter:
   search modifiers. For example, from:@shadowban_eu filter:links returns all
   tweets from @shadowban_eu containing a link.
   
   We simply pick one result tweet as reference and extract the shortlink, e.g.
   https://t.co/5Vzu63ypQJ .
   (This link points to a tweet, quoted here).
   
   We then query the Twitter search for the tweet using the shortlink's URL with
   the quality filter turned on and off. If the reference tweet is found in both
   cases, the account is not affected by QFD. In case it is found only when the
   filter is turned off, it is affected.
   
   We chose this method because shortlinks are unique. Methodically, it does not
   differ from searching for text or a hashtag but the uniqueness of shortlinks
   is a technical advantage.


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PLEASE NOTE: We can only detect the presence of specific bans or deboosting
methods, not their absence. There may be others which we do not know or cannot
easily test for.
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PLEASE NOTE: We can only detect the presence of specific bans or deboosting
methods, not their absence. There may be others which we do not know or cannot
easily test for.
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