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Trump uses Twitter but he didn't invite them to the tech summit reportedly for not creating a special trending tag for him. Trump enjoys being treated like roy

Trump uses Twitter but he didn't invite them to the tech summit reportedly for not creating a special trending tag for him. Trump enjoys being treated like royalty. I doubt he has loyalty to Twitter and would jump ship to another company that puts him on a pedestal. He would enjoy seeing the millions of customers who follow him.

grandalf 10y ago
> another company What other company offers a similar broadcast style approach for text content and doesn't require real name registration?
- deleted 10y ago
  [deleted]
- symlinkk 10y ago
  gab.ai
- fooey 10y ago
  r/The_Donald or /pol? Really though, Trump would fit right in on 4chan.
  - lordCarbonFiber 10y ago
    Nah, 4chan is the opposite of the kind of forum he craves. Everyone is a nameless faceless anon, so unless Trump starts leaking things about himself, he's just another boring racist troll in a crowd of boring racist trolls (just maybe 5x the average age).
    - Traubenfuchs 10y ago
      He could use a tripcode. /pol/ would literally explode.
- MichaelApproved 10y ago
  Why is not requiring "real name registration" a prerequisite? Regardless, the company doesn't have to exist today. Someone could be working on creating the new company, as we type.
- notatoad 10y ago
  whitehouse.gov?
throwaway420 10y ago
> Trump uses Twitter but he didn't invite them to the tech summit reportedly for not creating a special trending tag for him. The word reportedly is really interesting. Was this reported by the same media that was wrong about just about everything this election cycle? Could they somehow be wrong about this too? PS: Twitter is smaller than the other companies and is perceived as a failing (or at best stagnant) company. While Twitter is an important company online, if you were inviting the biggest companies in tech, there's some logic to not inviting them to that conference.
- Jach 10y ago
  Yeah that's a fishy reportedly. Better to look at the transcript. Trump: "I won’t tell you the hundreds of calls we’ve had asking to come to this meeting, and I will say, and I will say Peter was sort of saying, ’No, that company’s too small.’ And these are monster companies." My guess is Peter vetoed Twitter, for sensible reasons.
  - tomhoward 10y ago
    Thiel has long been contemptuous of Twitter's management: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/twitter-executives-smoke-too-much-pot-2014-9 http://www.businessinsider.com.au/twitter-executives-smoke-t...
basch 10y ago
twitter was too small to be there, he wanted companies with money?
concinds 10y ago
> he didn't invite them to the tech summit reportedly for not creating a special trending tag for him. Trump enjoys being treated like royalty. That's unfair to say. Trump's own Director of Digital Advertising explained[0] how Trump's campaign signed deals with Twitter, which Twitter didn't honor, without offering a refund. Sources connected to Trump[1] say he's considering an anti-trust investigation on them because of their role in this election, which includes censoring pro-Sanders and pro-Trump hashtags, and biased censorship of people like Milo. [0]: https://medium.com/@garycoby/twitter-restricts-trump-eb7e48ccf5ff#.7qxs5r5ef https://medium.com/@garycoby/twitter-restricts-trump-eb7e48c... [1]: https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/798765870172368896 https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/798765870172368896

grandalf 10y ago

> another company What other company offers a similar broadcast style approach for text content and doesn't require real name registration?

deleted 10y ago
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symlinkk 10y ago
gab.ai
fooey 10y ago
r/The_Donald or /pol? Really though, Trump would fit right in on 4chan.
- lordCarbonFiber 10y ago
  Nah, 4chan is the opposite of the kind of forum he craves. Everyone is a nameless faceless anon, so unless Trump starts leaking things about himself, he's just another boring racist troll in a crowd of boring racist trolls (just maybe 5x the average age).
  - Traubenfuchs 10y ago
    He could use a tripcode. /pol/ would literally explode.
MichaelApproved 10y ago
Why is not requiring "real name registration" a prerequisite? Regardless, the company doesn't have to exist today. Someone could be working on creating the new company, as we type.
notatoad 10y ago
whitehouse.gov?

throwaway420 10y ago

> Trump uses Twitter but he didn't invite them to the tech summit reportedly for not creating a special trending tag for him. The word reportedly is really interesting. Was this reported by the same media that was wrong about just about everything this election cycle? Could they somehow be wrong about this too? PS: Twitter is smaller than the other companies and is perceived as a failing (or at best stagnant) company. While Twitter is an important company online, if you were inviting the biggest companies in tech, there's some logic to not inviting them to that conference.

Jach 10y ago
Yeah that's a fishy reportedly. Better to look at the transcript. Trump: "I won’t tell you the hundreds of calls we’ve had asking to come to this meeting, and I will say, and I will say Peter was sort of saying, ’No, that company’s too small.’ And these are monster companies." My guess is Peter vetoed Twitter, for sensible reasons.
- tomhoward 10y ago
  Thiel has long been contemptuous of Twitter's management: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/twitter-executives-smoke-too-much-pot-2014-9 http://www.businessinsider.com.au/twitter-executives-smoke-t...

basch 10y ago

twitter was too small to be there, he wanted companies with money?

concinds 10y ago

> he didn't invite them to the tech summit reportedly for not creating a special trending tag for him. Trump enjoys being treated like royalty. That's unfair to say. Trump's own Director of Digital Advertising explained[0] how Trump's campaign signed deals with Twitter, which Twitter didn't honor, without offering a refund. Sources connected to Trump[1] say he's considering an anti-trust investigation on them because of their role in this election, which includes censoring pro-Sanders and pro-Trump hashtags, and biased censorship of people like Milo. [0]: https://medium.com/@garycoby/twitter-restricts-trump-eb7e48ccf5ff#.7qxs5r5ef https://medium.com/@garycoby/twitter-restricts-trump-eb7e48c... [1]: https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/798765870172368896 https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/798765870172368896