rDitt | 18 points | Nov 22 2016 01:31:37

#Pizzagate & #Twittergate hashtags blocked?

I am no expert on how Twitter works, but it seems to me that they have blocked search results for #twittergate and #pizzagate.

Results for both keywords have the latest at 11 hours ago. https://twitter.com/hashtag/pizzagate?src=hash

https://twitter.com/hashtag/twittergate?src=hash

Can someone confirm or tell me what I do wrong?

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rayb0t | 3 points | Nov 22 2016 02:09:11

Try switching to "latest" toward the top, or this URL

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23pizzagate%2C%20OR%20%23twittergate%2C%20include%3Aretweets&src=typd

They're definitely trying to keep it quiet.

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rDitt | 1 points | Nov 22 2016 02:49:16

OK, thanks. I wasn't sure as I don't own a Twitter account. Man, that behavior is so deceitful. Shame on them.

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GoHeadBeGoneWithIt | 2 points | Nov 22 2016 02:23:19

Yes they're blocked.

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dark_magi | 2 points | Nov 22 2016 02:38:17

Dude, twitter has been blocking our hashtags since #spiritcooking pre election. Twitter is literally working to keep this stuff under wraps.

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KFCNyanCat | 2 points | Nov 22 2016 02:40:36

Since GamerGate they've been blocking anti-establishment hashtags.

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dark_magi | 1 points | Nov 22 2016 02:42:18

GamerGate? Jesus how many of these things are there? What happened with that one?

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KFCNyanCat | 2 points | Nov 22 2016 02:49:09

GamerGate was (it still exists but it's much less active) a campaign to stop left-wing ideologues and paid reviewers from dominating gaming journalism and policing what can and cannot be in video games. Over time, it spread outside of gaming journalism to journalism in general. It was much less serious, and only tangentially related to Pizzagate.

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