Let's start with the summary: Elon's promise to restore all banned Twitter accounts was partially fulfilled. From my sample selection of high followed + some 'pet' Twitter accounts, all of which were (personally confirmed) banned under the previous Twitter administration, New Twitter (tm) has now restored around 55% of accounts. If this sample is any reflection of the overall Twitter population, we can thus say around half of previously banned Twitter users have now been unbanned. Better than nothing, but not exactly near 100%.
When I last posted this in January 2023, the restored account percentage wasn't much lower (52.3%), and I haven't seen anything change in the last couple of months, so I can safely assume this entire unbanning project from Elon has reached its conclusion. For this final episode, and at the request of some users here, I also added the reason for the original pre-Elon ban, to see if I could check for any patterns with the unbans.
Here's the data:
There doesn't seem to be much of a pattern to be honest. Tons of miscellaneous reasons for the bans. If I had to say though, the unbans are more train-related, and the "still banned" category tend to be more egregious offenses of le racism, heckin' harassment and a dose of violent rhetoric, at least according to Twitter/Wikipedia (which is where I sourced the ban reasons from).
Since January, we've seen the restoration of the following accounts:
Jared Taylor (posh spoken white nationalist) was also briefly unbanned in March/April, but rebanned under Elon's watch soon after.
I'll also include, but won't update the "cumulative unban vs time" graph from last time, since it's going to be very similar (just imagine it almost flatline after the end - January 2023):
I (probably) won't be posting about this again. Happy that Elon's half kept to his word, and maybe in the future, we'll see another Great Unbanning when Elon feels that Twitter is on more steady ground financially.
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So tl;dr: he won't unban anyone who's actually a threat to the political establishment (Alex Jones, Kanye West)
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Rich man wants to keep his interests you say? Hmm...
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But they're unbanned now.
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Yes he doesn't want the elite stopping him from getting to Mars.
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Or maybe he's laying low to keep Twitter alive in the short term. Long term, he may have greater plans.
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TRUST THE PLAN
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This isn't Daddy T we're talking about here. Daddy Rocket has a few more brain cells.
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lmao even
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They're back so I was right!
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Next time alex jones got sued for 10 billion they'd co-sue twitter for 4 trillion, so smart move by elon.
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Except he did ;)
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I'm glad to be proven wrong.
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I think he did it to take some of the heat off X, and when the dust had settled down, he could allow them back. Remember, X is still not guaranteed to survive financially. Advertisers are still wary.
EDIT: Ah yep, said that earlier: https://rdrama.net/h/slackernews/post/169056/effort-post-final-episode-and-conclusion/4118896#context
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Ye got unbanned until he posted that star of David swastika, Alex Jones is banned becuase Rocket Daddy claims to find hurting children so disgusting as to deserve a ban.
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and anyone who expected otherwise was an idiot, billionaire is gonna status quo billionaire
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Eat words time?
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I'm so happy in the CongoDeepKeepShill 11mo ago #4121967 Edited None spent 0 currency on pingsUnless the political establishment is comprised of the parents of shooting victims, Alex Jones is not a threat to it
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He won't unban Kanye because Elon hates Jewish people.
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Not sure sneako counts as that
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did jared taylor actually do anything with the account or did elon just realize the optics were bad? from what i hear, white nationalists seethe about JT being suppressed because he's apparently so well spoken that he'd make normies nootice while every other white nationalist is called a fed and just given a platform to make wignats look bad. bet there was some funny discourse about that ban
i only know him from that tariq debate tbh where tariq can't even pretend he's not trolling and starts laughing in the middle of saying crazy shit
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The irony of saying "he's so well spoken" about a white racist
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hes a tremendously physical athlete and so articulate
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Elon did unban Keith Woods and commented on one of his posts with his usual "interesting" or non-commital nooticing. Keith has done stuff with NJP and spicier people than JT so I dont understand the latters ban
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in that case i have to imagine it's just optics. i'm extremely racist but i don't think i've ever heard of those guys before, so i assume the kind of people to get upset about platforming chuds probably wouldn't know either. what does njp stand for? all i see when i google is some ethan ralph stuff
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I thought you were inpassionata until this comment lolol
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most hurtful thing anyone has said to me on this website
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National Justice Party/TRS. Theyre a bunch of cokehead cute twinks in Pennsylvania who have pool parties and tell their followers to get vaccinated. They also show up to a some interracial crime victims town to protests once a year and protest for their "activism".
Their kiwifarms thread and the TRS Exposed telegram page is very fun esoteric RW drama. Also Keith Woods and Joel Davis (two popular RW twitter people) now have started drama with them as well. I used to like all these RW people cuz they didnt infight purity spiral like chapos but now
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i found an article about them on the ADL and i'm 99% sure they're being led by a man with downs
i'll check out that KF thread when it comes back online, love reading about political grifters i gotta get more into RW drama, i think i missed a chapter around the time baked alaska started causing a stir and now everyone hates each other and the community looks like this from what i've heard
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Another funny one is Antellope Hill Publishing. They publish alot of esoteric Nazi/RW stuff (with absolutely sweet covers, great fonts, and graphic design btw) and are schilled by TRS. The couple that owns AHP....the wife is a fired school teacher white nationalist who got outed as being....Jewish!!!!! And they jewed an employee but its he said she said. Apparently they put him in an Uncle Ted style cuck shack and paid him shit while they made millions.
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Just upvoting this gets you in at least 7 different lists
Trans lives matter
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Jared Taylor's whole schtick is being pristine with his optics so he can peddle his message to the normies, he never did anything wrong to get banned in the first place except for posting 13/50.
It's strange how hard he's hated by the establishment but basically totally unknown as a person. Even /pol/BIPOCs don't talk about him.
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Can you supply the link to the Tariq debate. Also, who's Tariq?
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Thanks. So is he the same Tariq that's on rdrama ?
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Tariq has been a fav since the /r/drama days, he's the most well known hotep/black nationalist grifter of recent years imo. Unless you count Shawn King lol but I think even normies kinda realize he's white
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14266534/ he's the guy who made Buck Breaking and a lot of other pretty funny stuff. I think the jannies have made a few accounts for certain people in the hopes it'd draw them to the site but I'm unsure if they did that for Tariq, I know there's a few people on here with similar names tho in tribute of an OG dramatard
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Oh so the Tariq guy in the video was on the old /r/drama site, but not on rdrama?
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K
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Thanks appreciated!
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I am angry Twitter is not failing like the liberals promised me it would
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Your anger nourishes my soul.
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It seems to me the ones still banned are much more likely to be for abusing the platform (spam, etc.) or being affiliated with an organization. It makes sense since you're rarely at risk of trouble from letting someone have r-slurred opinions, but you could get blamed for anything anybody in that organization does.
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Lol they gave Anthony Cumia his Twitter account back? https://twitter.com/anthonycumia back to wall to wall posting
We can bully him again boys !opieandanthony
This dude can't behave, he'll find a way to get suspended even on Musk's Twitter
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feed nana
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Snapshots:
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https://twitter.com/LLinWood:
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Jared Taylor was my measuring stick for how legit Elon was about muh freezepeach. Sorta disappointing.
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Imagine a Jared versus Elon debate. Well one can dream...
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I wish I knew what got him rebanned.
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This seems like an interesting post, but your first graphic/chart looks like reddit in a purely visual sense, so I stopped reading
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It's just an Excel sheet.
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Success is also equal parts timing and appearance, not just substance. I hope you've learned a valuable lesson
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Raw data isn't exactly going to be glamorous, but okay edited it hopefully to your tastes and also added marseys to the points on the other graph!!
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The cognitive dissonance between agreeing with this point and still being annoyed when it's pointed out as a flaw in your presentation is the barrier that can keep you from ever rising to the C-suite level and from ever marrying a partner who respects you
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Do you like the Marsey in the new data table.
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Ok yes. Thank you. But that's not the point
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I've tried asking for appeals and I don't even get the "we've received your appeal" emails anymore. Also, when I got suspended they didn't even give me an email and it took my first appeal to understand why I was banned elon help
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@snus - you may be interested in the final installment of this saga.
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It’s Free Shkreli til the World blow, free him he innocent
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