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If the screenshot is real, I'm pretty sure that Scott Adams (the cartoonist) has that Search Blacklist button applied to him. I recently tried to search for users with his name, and he wouldn't appear at all (while unverified names with 0 followers would show up).

Had to go through DuckDuckGo to find his handle.



A user called '@viennacat921' joined in August 2019 with 0 tweets and is shown in the screenshot. '@b' is pernamently suspended and '@arceus' is protected and locked with all of this being reflected in the admin dashboard.

This leak seems to be legit.



You're right, thanks for the link.

I was surprised because I searched for users with the name "Scott Adams" and it was promoting users with 0 followers and not showing his verified account at all. This was through Tweetbot iOS.


Was this just now? Verified accounts weren’t showing up in search during the hack


Twitter shadow ban certain IDs in search suggestion isn't news, but @scottadamssays doesn't seem to be one of them.




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