All: we investigated what happened here, and we made some mistakes (which have been corrected). Some context first.https://twitter.com/support/status/822652800907800580 …
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We kicked off that plan at 12p Eastern yesterday:http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/01/20/510784802/on-the-day-of-white-house-transitions-twitter-shifts-potus-to-donald-trump …
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Two issues were reported during the day which we spent the night confirming and have now corrected:
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We believe this affected about 560,000 people. This was a mistake, it wasn't right, we own it, and we apologize. No excuses.
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We believe we've corrected all accounts to reflect your follow/unfollow intent. We're sorry for the mistakes made here, and thank you all.
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What are you doing about verified accounts posting threats of violence and death threats to Trump supporters? @Support
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hopefully they do as much for hate mongering bigots as they have for actual victims of Harrassment.
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of course they'd want to forcefully entrap us as their followers. We didn't ask for that.
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I was horrified to get a tweet from an orange man and many nazis praising him
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wanted Trump to tweet from
@potus 'just setting up my twittr"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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That was a terrible decision.
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BULLSHIT! Close the account and let them start from scratch. Why does he get followers just because...he isn't freaking god
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Understand the institutional aspect, but felt forced and by someone known for not respecting others. Letting people choose is good.
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Did you push back on that? They may be institutional, but they are branded as the person ("Pres. Trump"), not the office or building.
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nor fair. We were following a person., not the office. Fake followers galore now. Bullshit.
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TWO pinned tweets will help too. 1 pin for/by the user. 1 pin by Twitter saying the account will soon reset to 0 tweets & 0 followers.
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