re: #320 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

CCJ mentioned this mass IP banning in his interview with Milo Yiannopoulus, and I’m doubtful of its veracity. It would require his home office have a static IP from his ISP. Most ISPs assign IP addresses dynamically, so the address could change every day, for example. And Twitter would be unlikely to ban a range of IP addresses, because that would block a lot of existing and potential innocent users.

On the other hand, Chuck’s router could be providing Twitter with some identifying data. I’m not up on hardware anymore, so maybe some more knowledgeable IT person can clue me in.

I don’t think they’re “banning IPs” so much as using them to correlate account activity. Say if the same IP is used within the same time period by multiple accounts in succession those accounts might then become linked in Twitter’s database. Then if one account does something horrible enough to be banned they all come under strict scrutiny. The correlation tool would also look at similarities in activity, retweets, shared passwords, cookies, etc.