A new test has joined the shadowban.eu family: Resurrect

Whenever you find the infamous "This Tweet is unavailable" message (Twitter calls those tombstones), you can copy the full URL to or ID of a reply to that missing tweet and Resurrect it:

Happy Hunting! :)

We've updated the site to reflect Twitter's upcoming changes to their TOS. An important one, since they are now admitting to "lower the visibility" of whom- and whatever they deem fit.

The second part of this update is a really fun one: You can now install shadowban.eu as an app and use it as a target for "Share" within Twitter.

The install feature is available on all modern browsers. Sharing to the then installed app is sadly only supported by Chrome for Android. All other browsers have not yet implemented that feature; there is nothing we can do about that but wait.

The good news first: Twitter has completely removed the #QFD shadowban method. While it had been disabled for quite some time, they've now removed the 'Quality Filter' option from their apps, as well. So I'm pleased to announce that shadowban.eu has successfully exposed and defeated one of Twitter's shadowbanning methods.

Many thanks to everyone involved; from all users raising awareness using the in their name to journalists all around the world writing articles about #QFD.

Twitter doesn't get tired of making our lives hard, though.

I'm sure you have come across this view:

"This Tweet is unavailable" can mean several things:

• The tweet got deleted,
• you are blocked by the user
• or their profile is set to private.

Well, it turns out that those aren't the only possible reasons you are seeing this message, instead of the tweet.
You guessed it; shadowban!

Twitter seems to flag certain images, videos and texts, which leads to their tweets being hidden behind this "unavailable" message. Look at this image! It shows a comment you have seen and clicked on in your timeline. The tweet the comment was made on is "unavailable".

After some digging, you might find the tweet anyway; and it's not deleted, at all!

Weird, huh? Oh, but wait! It. Gets. BETTER!
Did you notice that the hidden tweet from @neythomas is quoting someone else's tweet?

Indeed, it's not @neythomas' tweet that is flagged here; it'sthe quoted one. Let's have a look at it and then visit its first comment. Actually being the next tweet of the author's thread, which lets us know that it doesn't matter who made the comment.

This then shows that quoting flagged tweets hides the quoting tweet, too. The heredity also does not end at the first level. If you quote a tweet that has quoted a flagged tweet... I think you see where this is going.
Almost like #QFD used to work, this new shadowbanning method affects everyone and -thing that touches tweets by Twitter deemed to be bad.

Why bad? We don't know, yet.
I wouldn't call the tweets you see in this example controversial. They are complaining about a member of the German Green party - moreover, a member of parliament - having been interviewed by our public broadcasting services, without disclosing that fact. The topic of the broadcast is controversial, though. It's about a wholefood shop that has discontinued a brand of millet, because the CEO of the company producing it is a member of the German right-wing party AfD.
The Green party being far left is where people start butting heads.

Here are some other examples you might want to explore:

• Report about ABC's fake footage regarding Turkey's invasion of Syria
• Again about the public broadcasting "mishap" from the extended example in this post
• Videos of Kurds attacking a Turkish Café in Germany
  Here, all of the thread's tweets are flagged. You can click through them one by one, each disrupting the thread by being shown as "unavailable".
  Please note: The first tweet claims that the videos show a mosque being attacked, which has been debunked. So this one actually qualifies for false information.