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Type Social networking website
Website twitter.com
Twitter is a social network where users can post "tweets" up to 140-characters in length. Twitter utilizes "hashtags", which are words or phrases starting with the pound symbol (#). GamerGate was started when Adam Baldwin used the hashtag #GamerGate in reference to one of Internet Aristocrat's Quinnspiracy Theory videos.
Twitter bans
- On February 28,[citation needed] The Fine Young Capitalists were banned from Twitter for posting a link to their own video series on Gender Studies In Video Games.
- On or before September 7, Twitter banned CameraLady for reporting on Gamergate.[1] As of September 22, the account has not been restored.
- On September 13, atheist commentator Thunderf00t was banned. As of September 22, the account has not been restored.
- In mid-September, Twitter banned one of the accounts of video game commentator Press Fart To Continue.
- In late October, there were many reports of twitter users being spam reported by bots when they posted with the #gamergate tag.
References
- ↑ ShortFatOtaku, Indie-fensible - Bigger Fish to Fry!, September 2014, http://knowyourmeme.com/videos/96819-gamergate
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