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William Shatner<\/strong> is angry at Twitter<\/em> for something they’ve done and he is not shy about calling them out over the behavior.<\/p>\n The actor spoke at length about the matter on his Shatner Speaks Tumblr<\/em> page.<\/p>\n “Each year for the past couple years on December 31st I post a tongue-in-cheek ode to those that I follow on Twitter<\/em>,” said Shatner. “I try to reflect on my interactions with each of my followers and keep it fun all while keeping it in iambic pentameter.<\/p>\n “So imagine my surprise last night as I go into Twitter<\/em> to get a list of those that I follow to start my yearly project only to discover that an account I didn\u2019t follow, MasterCard<\/em> was prominently displayed as one of my followers! Twitter<\/em>‘s latest marketing scheme is to add followers to the list of those trusted friends and acquaintances that you have so carefully put together.”<\/p>\n In addition to corporations, there are individuals on his list to whom Shatner objects, including one that has the name “ganja” as part of his Twitter<\/em> handle. “That’s not acceptable to me to have this occur on my followers list as it could hurt my income and my reputation,” said Shatner. “I don\u2019t mind seeing a suggestion on who to follow as a promoted account or even a promoted tweet in my timeline but to add someone or some company to my list of followers implies endorsement.”<\/p>\n “I, like a host of other well knowns and peers, am very careful about endorsements and the abuse by Twitter<\/em> of this does not sit well with me.<\/p>\n “To that end I will not be doing my year end homage to those I follower since I\u2019m not about to praise MasterCard<\/em> or Ganja guy.”<\/p>\n On his Twitter<\/em> feed, Shatner posted a tweet to Twitter<\/em> head co-founder Jack Dorsey<\/strong> as well as to the Twitter<\/em> safety team. “Do you understand that by implying that I follow these companies that it appears to be an endorsement?”<\/p>\n “I’m out but am going to reevaluate the time I spend on Twitter<\/em> going forward,” said Shatner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" William Shatner is angry at Twitter for something they’ve done and he is not shy…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2414,3027],"class_list":["post-38633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-shatner","tag-twitter"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Cast & Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast & Crew","comment_count":"53","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38639,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38633\/revisions\/38639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}