“I’ve been using Twitter for eight years, but I’ve never seen behavior quite like this. This swarming…”

October 27 Comments Off on “I’ve been using Twitter for eight years, but I’ve never seen behavior quite like this. This swarming…” Category: Feed, Games, Tumblr

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I’ve been using Twitter for eight years, but I’ve never seen behavior quite like this. This swarming behavior is so prevalent, it got a new nickname — “sea lioning,” inspired by David Malki’s Wondermark comic.

I wanted to understand #Gamergate, how its proponents and critics behaved and the composition of both audiences.

So I wrote a little Python script with the Twython wrapper for the Twitter streaming API, and started capturing every single tweet that mentioned the #Gamergate and #NotYourShield hashtags.

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– 72 Hours of Gamergate.

“Twitter has been shamefully slow in addressing this problem. It didn’t add a report-abuse button…”

October 19 Comments Off on “Twitter has been shamefully slow in addressing this problem. It didn’t add a report-abuse button…” Category: Feed, Tumblr

“Twitter has been shamefully slow in addressing this problem. It didn’t add a report-abuse button until August 2013, after British activist Caroline Criado-Perez was hit with a torrent of violent threats because she campaigned to get Jane Austen’s portrait on the £10 note.”

– Twitter Could Fix Gamergate. Why Doesn’t It?