{"id":853,"date":"2021-03-15T15:36:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T14:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/15\/twitter-accidentally-blocks-users-who-post-the-word-memphis\/"},"modified":"2021-03-15T15:36:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T14:36:41","slug":"twitter-accidentally-blocks-users-who-post-the-word-memphis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/15\/twitter-accidentally-blocks-users-who-post-the-word-memphis\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter accidentally blocks users who post the word &#8216;Memphis&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tweeting city\u2019s name was enough for 12-hour suspension in apparent gaffe over personal information sharing<\/p>\n<p>Memphis, Tennessee, is a city with a storied past. A heartland of rock\u2019n\u2019roll, blues, gospel and country music, it\u2019s the home of Graceland and FedEx, and a cornerstone of the civil rights movement. So it came as a surprise when Twitter decided to ban the city from its site.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, users of the social network discovered that simply tweeting the word \u201cMemphis\u201d was enough to land them with an automatic 12-hour suspension, and a requirement to delete the tweet.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/mar\/15\/twitter-accidentally-blocks-users-who-post-the-word-memphis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1f7367b6c1b665354f6346fe65d3004f32816870\/188_346_5012_3009\/master\/5012.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d8033df7a7f5add5f4aee8ab09da1483\" title=\"Twitter accidentally blocks users who post the word 'Memphis'\" \/>Tweeting city\u2019s name was enough for 12-hour suspension in apparent gaffe over personal information sharing<br \/>\nMemphis, Tennessee, is a city with a storied past. A heartland of rock\u2019n\u2019roll, blues, gospel and country music, it\u2019s the home of Graceland and FedEx, and a cornerstone of the civil rights movement. So it came as a surprise when Twitter decided to ban the city from its site.<br \/>\nOver the weekend, users of the social network discovered that simply tweeting the word \u201cMemphis\u201d was enough to land them with an automatic 12-hour suspension, and a requirement to delete the tweet. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweeting city\u2019s name was enough for 12-hour suspension in apparent gaffe over personal information sharing Memphis, Tennessee, is a city with a storied past. A heartland of rock\u2019n\u2019roll, blues, gospel and country music, it\u2019s the home of Graceland and FedEx, and a cornerstone of the civil rights movement. So it came as a surprise when &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/15\/twitter-accidentally-blocks-users-who-post-the-word-memphis\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twitter accidentally blocks users who post the word &#8216;Memphis&#8217;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}