Caught In The Purge

Thank you to everyone sending messages of support.

Twitter suspended my account @steveouttrim out of the blue, citing "spam and platform manipulation" - neither of which is true. It appears I got caught up in the mass purge of Trump-supporting accounts.

I contacted their support team to appeal, but I don't hold out much hope as the true motivation behind this seems political rather than their stated reason.

You can still find me there on the account for this blog, @burnersdotme. At least for now...the de-platformers have had me in their sights for a long time, no doubt they will be trying to take that account out soon also.

Twitter was careful to wait until the stockmarket closed before implementing their sweeping censorship. Even so, with a nearly 4% drop in after hours trading this has cost them about $1.6 billion. It is hard to see future upside in the stock if they are deliberately alienating half their user base.

Other Targets

The biggest target of the purge was obviously Donald Trump (89 million followers), who is still President of the United States. He was simultaneously de-platformed on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitch, TikTok, Discord, Shopify, Pinterest. CampaignMonitor, the mailing list provider for his campaign suspended him. Online stores selling Trump-related merchandise were also taken out. The President's official Twitter account @POTUS is still there but recent messages from Trump were arbitrarily deleted.

Trump's YouTube channel (2.7m) is still there. Steve Bannon's War Room YouTube channel (330k subs) was also removed.

Some of the other accounts taken out were much larger than mine (9200 followers):

General Michael Flynn (1.2m)

Michael Flynn Jr

Sidney Powell (1.2m)

Lin Wood (1.1m)

FightBackLaw

Tracy Beanz (533k)

Major Patriot (311k)

Praying Medic (476k)

Code Monkey

Ben Garrison/Grrrgraphics

Entheos Shines

Miguelifornia (99k)

CJTruth (279k)

Ann Vandersteel

We The Inevitable

Nurse Deplorable

Qtah

X22 Report

Amazing Polly (99freemind)

3 Days 3 Nights

Vincent Kennedy (319k)

Pepe News Now (69k)

Re5igam

Techno Fog

Breaking 911

Doqholliday (102k)

InTheMatrixxx

BrunoBarking

QAnon76

SunQTzu

Zach Haller (Shirtless Pundit)

ANCReport (Ryan Dawson)

Sir William Scot5

Enoch

TruReporting

QtheWakeUp

BenKTallmadge

Sean Cordanon

Anonpatriotq

Mareq16

AOECoin

Many accounts that remained reported losing large numbers of followers.

Suspicious Survivors

Some accounts strangely managed to survive the purge:

[Featured image: the New Yorker, 2014]