If you were following @HouseScience before yesterday, Twitter switched you over to the GOP account and didn’t add the official committee account to your follows. You have to do it manually.
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Hrm. So this wasn’t underhanded, but it was extremely dumb. The idea that most of those 168k followers wanted to follow
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I’m curious to know if this is how it was done in 2011, when the GOP took the majority. The account was created in 2009 when the Dems were in control.
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Twitter got an earful in 2017 when they did it the other way, having Obama followers automatically follow Trump’s POTUS account. Maybe just set all official accounts to zero at a transition and send folks a message with option to refollow.
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That is, there are some situations where you want to follow someone to their new account, and others where you want to stick with an official account when it changes hands. Probably best to just ask users what they want to do each time.
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The easy solution is that committee accounts should just be used for scheduling/official business, and each party can have a separate account. It's absurd they don't do it that way.https://twitter.com/davelevitan/status/1081262439096827904 …
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Yeah, I feel like it makes sense to have an account limited to official messaging from the committee, though I’m not sure if both sides would agree on the line between official and partisan.
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True, could be complicated, but if you just limit it to "this hearing will take place at this time, here's the link to watch it" kind of stuff I can't imagine anyone could complain.
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Oh sure, I guess I’m imagining them linking to a study or something relevant for upcoming testimony. I’d like for a committee like this to be able to share consensus scientific opinions, even on charged topics, in the course of their official business.
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Agreed that would be nice, but uh, my level of trust in that working well regardless of party in charge is... not high.
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Except I'm already following
@HouseScience and not following@housesciencegop. I didn't do any following or unfollowing at all.
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When’d you follow?
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Isn’t this the same thing that happened with
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Sort of the reverse. Maybe no good way to do it.
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But wouldn’t that mean that it’s not some sinister thing by Republicans? Just poor design by Twitter?
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reported the housesciencegop account as an impersonator account

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Whoa. Thanks so much for informing. This is really important. We need as many people as possible to see this so they know what happened
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God this shit is infuriating
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