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our own God that you don't need to use military weapons because that's the old technology. Here's the context. When the only military weapons available were swords, Islam when it was spreading used swords because swords were the weapon that you could use to spread Islam. When weapons improved to the point where you have exploding things and guns and missiles and stuff, at least the terrorist part…
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But if you are being shadow banned on a platform what you would expect to see is that one would stay the same, business as usual, and one would go boom, suddenly down. That's what you should expect to see if somebody's playing games with your traffic. And so I suggested that there would be a way to build some kind of a rough sensing device to find out when you're shadow banned simply by comparing your traffic across your multiple platforms. And I also suggested that you all have multiple platforms for this purpose.
I want to show you what happened when I did this. So there's an app called Social Blade that allows you to just put in any address and you can track yours or anybody else's Twitter and Instagram or YouTube traffic. I think Instagram but at least YouTube. So you could do YouTube, Twitter, Twitch or Instagram and you can compare them.
So I'm going to show you two weeks. I'm going to compare my traffic on Twitter with my traffic on YouTube. And keep in mind that they're very similar content. So the content I put on YouTube is literally the stuff I made on Twitter. So they should move in lockstep if for example there was some kind of a summer lull or something.
All right so I'm going to show you the graph. Here's a graph of my day. If I can make this. Two years from pair with me. I'm going to take down my screen illumination and then you'll be able to clearly see this or not but I'll describe it. All right here. So here's my Twitter traffic. Now you can see starting over here that I you know I've got — let's see if I can get a good picture on this. Damn it it's gonna be hard. Yeah I can't. Well I'll describe it to you.
So you can see I'm getting a lot of traffic and then there's one week and on Twitter my traffic is up and down and there's one week for the entire week, five days, it flatlines and then after a week it goes back to normal. B
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ut somebody said just put it close. Does that help? Oh yeah it does. Thank you. Good advice. So here, here I'm sorry right there. See that week? Notice that that week doesn't look like anything else. Even the low week is not even close to that week. So right here my Twitter traffic went to almost nothing in terms of new users for a week. So what happens if I look at, since that's Twitter, what h…
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