Four and a half years of impression and new-follower data from Twitter tells the story of censorship

And Twitter is still sick

More than four years of impression and new-follow data from Twitter, through various bouts of censorship and deboosting.

(1) Note the rapid rise during the first year of COVID before censorship began in earnest.

(2) By April 2021, Biden had begun censoring, and you can see the rapid fall-off (left end of horizontal double arrow).

(3) At some point over the next months, in addition to being temporarily suspended multiple times and permanently suspended once -- and reinstated -- Twitter labeled my account "sensitive content," which lasted until around Feb 2023, only after I appear to have (months earlier) managed to reach Ella Irwin, the VP of Trust and Safety at Twitter, who had sufficiently few followers that she appeared to actually notice my appeals to her in posts and DMs. Without that, I might well be still treated as "sensitive."

(4) In spite of no longer being labeled "sensitive," my almost two years of tweets while under that label are STILL labeled as such, and many cannot view them.

(5) While my release from "sensitive content" led to a noticeable increase (right end of horizontal double arrow), except for a month or two, my impressions and new followings has been (a) well below the initiation of Biden censorship, and (b) inexorably falling.

(6) Note the rise of monetization in July 2023, after which there appears to be a steady decline, as the mechanisms selectively favor rabble rousers who induce turmoil in the comments.

Our only free-speech-friendly social network is a basket case.